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A biography of Tossia Altman (1918-1943), focusing on her activities as a leader of the Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth movement in Poland during the Holocaust period and her role in the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Summarizes most of the available data on Altman from testimonies and memoirs of Holocaust survivors (published and unpublished, including testimonies collected by the author), information from material found in Israeli archives, and data from monographs on the history of Hashomer Hatzair and the Holocaust in Poland. Altman escaped from the ghetto, but perished in a fire which broke out in the factory where she was hiding on the "Aryan side" in Warsaw. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)