Background
Mira Fuchrer was born in Warsaw.
Mira Fuchrer was born in Warsaw.
She was active in Hashomer Hatzair youth organisation which is where she likely met Mordechai Anielewicz. Mira and Mordechai got together and in September 1939 they fled to Vilnius. They returned to Warsaw in January 1940 and in November the same year they joined the fate of other Jewish citizens of Warsaw in the ghetto.
In 1942 she visited other ghettos as a courrier.
During the Ghetto Uprising she fought in the so-called central ghetto. On the 8th of May 1943 she was in a bunker at 18 Mila Street together with Mordechai Anielewicz and a group of about 120 fighters.
When the bunker was discovered and surrounded by the Germans the fighters refused to surrender. Majority committed suicide at Arie Wilner"s command.
The name of Mira Fuchrer is engraved on the obelisk, set at the steps of the memorial known as Anielewicz Mound in 2006.
lieutenant is among 51 names of fighters whose identities were established by historians.