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His parents were permanently absent social activists,
who were working in aid of the needy. Marek was brought
up by the ‘Bund family’ - TSYSHO (Tsentrale Yidishe Shul
Organizatsye – Central Yiddish School Organization), run
mainly by teachers – activists of Bund and YAF; he spent
his holidays at SKIF summer camps, and shortly before the
war at Tsukunft camps. Due to the fact that he had been
suffering from tuberculosis, he also stayed in a Bund-run
Medem sanatorium in Miedzeszyn near Warsaw. All that
had shaped him as a socialist, Bund member and a social
activist, which he continued to be until the end of his life. In
the ghetto, at work as a doctor, during the ‘Solidarity’ times
and his later fight for human rights, he always saw his task
in the context of community and social responsibility.

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On the way back from a camp in Siderance at the Lithuanian border, picture
taken presumably in Wołkowysk. First from the left is Rosa Lichtensztajn,
a teacher from the camp, Marek Edelman and Franciszek, brother of Salek
Lichtensztajn. After his mother’s death in 1934, Marek Edelman lived with
Roza Lichtensztajn and her husband Salek. 1930s. From Paula Sawicka’s
collection