Dov Lopatyn
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Dov Lopatyn was the head of the Judenrat in Åachwa, Poland (now Lakhva, Belarus) in 1941-1942. He refused the demand of the Einsatzgruppen that the ghetto inhabitants line up for deportation, and on September 3, 1942, he led one of the first ghetto uprisings of the war.
More than half of the ghetto population was either killed in the fighting or taken to nearby pits and shot. A number did escape to the Pripet Marshes, where some joined partisan units. Lopatyn joined a communist partisan unit, and was killed on February 21, 1944 by a landmine.
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