Yehuda Maimon (Poldek)
Yehuda Maimon (Poldek) A member of the Hehaluts Halohem (Fighting Pioneer) resistance group in Kraków, participated in “Operation Cyganeria,” deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he was a member of the communist underground; escaped from the death march. After the liberation, he became a Bricha activist in Poland, Romania, and Italy. In 1945, he joined the Nakam group and participated in the plan to undertake revenge against German war prisoners in Nuremberg, Germany.
Yehuda Maimon (Wassermann), also known by his underground alias Poldek, 1945
Members of the Nakam group in Tarvisio, Italy July 1945
Members of the Nakam group. Poldek: stretching out on right
Jewish Brigade soldiers and Holocaust survivors in Italy
Abba Kovner (second from top) on deck of vessel on his way back to Europe after his unsuccessful attempt to gain approval from Eretz Israel for the idea of