b'BC_5782_2021final_cmyk_Layout 18/8/219:47 AMPage 10Frumka Plotnicka, who came from theoutskirts of the city of Pinsk and latermovedtoWarsaw,wasacommittedZionist and socialist from an early age.Judy Batalion describes her as a deeplistenerandanalyticthinkerwhoinnormal times was socially awkward andreserved in her demeanor, but who intimes of crisis emerged as a leader, withincisive and eloquent thoughts on whatcourse of action to take.In following the start of the war in 1939,Frumka Plotnicka (second from right) at a pioneer camp she established a soup kitchen servingin 1938. some 600 Jews. She devoted herself toestablishinglinksandcommunicationamong the many revolutionary and resistance communities, finding housing for visitors, creatingstudy groups, and traveling disguised as a gentile to Lodz, Bedzin and elsewhere for discussions.As a courier, she smuggled arms into the Warsaw ghetto, hiding them in a sack of potatoes.In September 1942, the ZOB sent her to Bedzin to help lead the resistance in the ghetto there. Theliquidation of the ghetto, with most Jews deported to Auschwitz, took place in August 1943.Frumka Plotnicka died fighting on August 3, attacking German soldiers from a cellar beneath ahouse that was burned, shot at and smoke-bombed by the Germans.'