Marek Edelman (Yiddish: מאַרעק עדעלמאַן‎, born either 1919 in Homel[3] or 1922 in Warsaw – October 2, 2009 in Warsaw, Poland)[1] was a Jewish-Polish political and social activist and cardiologist. Before his death in 2009, Edelman was the last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.