Riwka Madeiskar, member of the Jewish underground in the Vilnius (Vilna) and Bialystok ghettos.
Riwka Madeiskar, born in 1922, was a member of Ha - Shomer ha - Tsa’ir and took part in the Bialystok ghetto uprising. After that she lived as a Pole, under the assumed name of Marysia Madejska, on the “Aryan” side of Bialystok, and served as a courier with the partisans. She was arrested by Ukrainian SS men after having been informed on. She was charged with providing aid for a wounded Jew in hiding. Rivka Madeiskar was tortured to death; she died on December 3, 1943.
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