Emanuel Mink

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Emanuel Mink, pseudonym Mundek (born 23 April 1910 in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, March 29, 2008 in Paris) is a Polish communist activist of Jewish origin, carpenter, participant of the Spanish Civil War and French resistance during the Second World War. Honorary citizen of Spain. Curriculum vitae

He was a member of the Communist Party of Poland, for whom he was imprisoned during the Second Polish Republic. Participant of the Spartacist in Barcelona, ​​as a member of the Jewish football team. Before the outbreak of civil war in Spain, before the establishment of the international forces, he appeared as one of the first three foreign volunteers to defend the Republic. According to his son Emanuel Minka, Jerzy's father, apart from the ideological ideals, he was guided primarily by the thought that this war would be the first armed resistance of the Jews against national socialism. He participated in the defense of Madrid. He was a member of the Jewish Company. Napoleon Botwin in the composition of the 13th Brigade of the International. Jaroslaw Dąbrowski. Severely wounded twice. After fighting over the Ebro River, when his company lost about 80% of the troops, he rebuilt it and took command as its last commandant. After the war ended, the French were interned. Released in early 1941 to help organize the first French resistance troops. Arrested during a roundup on Jews in Paris in August of the same year, he was sent to a Drancy camp where he was deported from the first transport of Jews from France to the German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he received camp number 28413. Liberation was awaited in the German camp in Alsace .

He returned to Poland in 1950. As the captain of the KBW, until 1964, he worked as a sanitary inspector. In 1969 he emigrated from Poland to France, as a result of the anti-Semitic campaign following the March events.

He was probably one of the last "oak woods". According to information obtained in April 2007, "Tygodnik Powszechny" ("Tygodnik Powszechny") in Poland received another 25 veterans in the Spanish wars, including widows. In France, there were two "oysters", including Emanuel Mink. Honors Bibliography

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