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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Joseph
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Israel
- Place of birth
- Chełm
- Place of death
- Tel Aviv
- Occupation
- partisan
- Languages spoken
- Polish
- Religion
- Judaism
- Conflict
- World War II
- Image
- Sierczuk (Serchuk) Josef.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1919-00-00
- date of death
- 1993-11-06
- place of detention
- Sobibór Extermination Camp
- name in native language
- Józef Serczuk
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Encyclopedic overview
Brothers Sierczuk, David (left) and Josef (right) in post-War Poland Joseph (Yozhik) Serchuk (Hebrew: יוסף סרצ'וק) born Józef Serczuk or Josef Sierczuk (Chełm, 1919 – 6 November 1993, Tel Aviv) was the leader of a Jewish partisan unit in the Lublin area of occupied Poland during the Holocaust. After World War II, he testified at trials of the Nazis, and received special recognition from the State of Israel.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Joseph Serchuk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.