Szymon Drenger Explained

Szymon Drenger
Birth Place:Kraków, Poland
Death Place:Kraków, Poland

Szymon Drenger, also Szymon Draenger (1917 — 8 November 1943), was a Polish-Jewish partisan. He was the leader of a Jewish partisan organization known as the Fighting Pioneer, in Hebrew Hechalutz Ha'Lochem, during World War II.[1] He and three other members of the Fighting Pioneer attacked and killed 20 German soldiers in a cafe.[2] Szymon Drenger and his wife Gusta Dawidson Draenger were also part of the underground organization and both were killed by Gestapo on 8 November 1943.[1]

Notes and References

  1. http://warszawa.getto.pl/index.php?mod=view_record&rid=1453015213951984783&tid=osoby&lang=en
  2. News: Anti-Nazi Fighters the History Books Forgot About . Haaretz . September 19, 2015 . September 19, 2015 . Aderet, Ofer.