page_title: Mordechai Anielewicz
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Mordechai Anielewicz / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Kopiec Anielewicza przy ul. Miłej 18 w Warszawie English: Mila 18 Memorial (Anielewicz Mound) in Warsaw
context_page_description: Mordechai Anielewicz was the leader of the Jewish Fighting Organization, which led the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; the largest Jewish insurrection during the Second World War, which inspired further rebellions in both ghettos and extermination camps. His character was engraved as a symbol of courage and sacrifice, and to this day his image represents Jewish resistance during the Holocaust.
context_section_description: During the later part of the war, a unit of the People's Guard formed by Warsaw Ghetto survivors bore the name of Anielewicz
  In July 1944, Anielewicz was posthumously awarded the Cross of Valour by the Polish government in exile.
  In 1945 he was also awarded the Cross of Grunwald, 3rd Class by the Polish People's Army.
  In December 1943, kibbutz Yad Mordechai in Israel was renamed after him and had a monument erected in his memory.
  The site of a former German concentration camp, was renamed Mordechaj Anielewicz Street.
  Many cities in Israel have streets named after him, including Beersheba, Tel Aviv, Petah Tikva, Safed, Lod, Ashdod, Haifa, Holon, Yehud and more.
  In 1983, the Israeli government issued a two-stamp set honoring Anielewicz and Josef Glazman as heroes of the ghettos.
  There is a state elementary school in Bat Yam named after Anielewicz.
  The actor Murray Salem played Anielewicz in the 1978 television miniseries Holocaust, while Hank Azaria played the role in the 2001 Uprising.
  Anielewicz is also a key figure in Harry Turtledove's alternate history series Worldwar and appears as a character in the Highlander 1997 novel Zealot.  In the role-playing game Wraith: The Oblivion, he is the de facto leader of the Shadowlands version of the Warsaw Ghetto.
  In Leon Uris's 1962 novel Mila 18, the protagonist Andrei Androfsky is modeled on Anielewicz.
  In John Ross's 1996 novel Unintended Consequences, one of the protagonists, Irwin Mann, is depicted as the first member of the uprising to capture a Nazi guard's rifle, and Anielewicz is briefly depicted in interactions with Mann, and mentioned throughout the rest of the book.
caption: General view of Miła 18 memorial, place of death of Mordechai Anielewicz
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