Zofia Jamajka

The Second World War - Criminals

Zofia Jamajka was born in 1925 in Warsaw to a prominent Hasidic family. She is portrayed as a heroine of the Jewish underground, e.g. by Arno Lustiger(1924 - 2012) - German historian and writer, coming from Polish Jews from Będzin, concentration camp prisoner. He was one of the most famous witnesses and historians of the Holocaust in Germany, a well-known activist of Jewish organizations in Germany, and the author of highly regarded publications on the participation of Jews in the resistance movement during the Spanish Civil War and World War II., but despite her dramatic fate, she went down in the annals of history as a bandit of Israel Ajzenman.

During the German occupation of Poland, like all Jews, she was interned in the Warsaw ghetto. There she actively participated in the resistance movement. After some time of active resistance, she left the ghetto with several armed groups and joined the partisans in eastern Poland. She was supposed to meet the party courier in the ghetto in Biała Podlaska, but no one came. Meanwhile, the SS surrounded the ghetto that was to be dissolved. She was arrested. But she managed to jump off the train to the Treblinka extermination camp and returned to Biała Podlaska. However, she had to return to Warsaw because she did not find a safe haven. In Warsaw, she obtained false documents and was assigned to an underground printing house. At the end of September 1942, the printing house was discovered by the Gestapo. Zofia Jamajka was arrested and cruelly tortured, but did not reveal her true identity. She was released after three months in prison.
— Arno Lustiger Zum Kampf auf Leben und Tod – Vom Widerstand der Juden 1933 – 1945, München 1994, S. 244 – 245

During the murder of the local intelligentsia and soldiers of the Polish underground in Drzewica, part of Ajzenman's gang "Lions" attacked the presbytery. The group was led by a woman - Zofia Jamajka. Jamaica's subordinates did not find a local priest - Fr. Józef Pawlik, and only this saved him from death.

Arno Lustiger whitens Jamaica's resume:

  • She was the heroine of the Polish-Jewish resistance movement.
    There are no historical sources that would confirm that Zofia Jamaica was seen as the heroine of any resistance movement.
  • She was the youngest person (18) to receive the Order of Virtuti Militari.
    The youngest person is 13-year-old Antoś Petrykiewicz - Lviv defender
  • received the Order of Virtuti Militari, a high Polish award for bravery
    In the book with the list of the decorated with the Order of Virtuti Militari in the times of the Polish People's Republic, there are even war criminals, but Zofia Jamaica was not mentioned among those awarded.
  • joined Levi's partisans.
    she joined the partisan units of "Lions" - Israel Ajzenman's gang. This unit was nowhere recognized as "Levi", and the mere change of name to "Levi" seems to distance it from being co-responsible for the actions of "Lions".
  • In January 1943, her group captured the town of Gowarczów for a few hours.
    It was there, 20 km away, on that night of January 22-23, 1943, the "Lions" gang murdered 11 people in Drzewica, which is not mentioned.
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