The warsaw ghetto uprising

Like her husband, Yitzhak Zuckerman, Zivia was a member of the Zionist-Socialist movement from a young age. Later, she took a position for the He-Halutz in Warsaw, where she was appointed corrdinator of the training department. From then on she played a large role in the group's success. When the turmoil in the Warsaw Ghetto began, she was also a member of the ZOB, taking a leadership role in that organization as well. She participated in the ZOB's first resistance operation and stuck with it for the duration of the uprising. During this period, she served as a liason between the various groups and bunkers. The day before the ZOB leaders were discovered by the Germans, they decided that Lubetkin should try to find a way to connect with the outside via the sewage tunnels. From that day on she was haunted by the thought that she had abandoned her remaining friends to certain death. She hid until the end of the war and was rescued from a hideout in 1944.