Dr. David Weiskopf was born in 1899 in Lodz,
Poland. He graduated from Medical School in Warsaw in 1925, specializing
in Radiology and Gastrology. During the war he worked in the Hospital
in the ghetto and formed an underground group trying to make contacts
with the Polish resistance. Daniel had a radio and he knew well the fate
of the Jews after liquidation of the ghetto. He hid with his family in
a bunker waiting for the liberation by the Russians. The hiding place
was discovered by the German Commandant, Hans Biebow. Daniel, a man of
great physical strength, wounded Biebow with a brick, but was gunned
down by him.
In the five years history of Lodz-Ghetto it
was the first and last act of physical resistance against the hangman
of the ghetto. Daniel told Biebow before he died: " Murderer, your hands
are bloody and your days are numbered." Daniel's act of heroism changed
the minds and hearts of eight hundred Jews left to clean the ghetto.
And the beastly Biebow had the pretaste of his own infamous death.