Tosia Altman
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Tova (Tosia) Altman (1918-1943) worked with Mordechai Anielewicz as a member of the ZOB during the Warsaw ghetto uprising. She initially worked as a courier, making contact with Jewish resistance groups outside of the ghetto and providing them with updates on resistance clashes, as well as providing educational material that was banned by the occupying Nazi forces. Later, she was critical in helping to smuggle weapons and explosives into the Warsaw ghetto.
She escaped a capture attempt on January 18, 1943 and moved to the ZOB bunker at 18 Mila Street, she was one of the few to survive the battle on May 8 that saw the bunker abandoned and Mordechai Anielewicz killed. Despite suffering wounds to the leg and head, Tosia was able to join a group of approximately seventy-five resistance fighters who left the ghetto on May 10 in a daring sewer escape. Tosia was captured again on May 24 when the celluloid factory she was sheltering in accidentally caught fire and she suffered severe burns. She was taken into custody by the Gestapo and died shortly afterward, receiving no medical treatment.