Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, died Friday in Warsaw at the age of 90. After the war, Edelman worked in Lodz as a cardiologist, and was a member of the democratic opposition to the communist regime in Poland that fell in 1989. More than 55,000 people were killed or sent to Nazi concentration camps during the uprising.
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