 The best known case of post @-@ uprising departure involved a group of Jewish Combat Organization fighters under the leadership of Icchak Cukierman and Marek Edelman , who had taken part in both the Ghetto and the Warsaw Uprisings . Originally , the former Ghetto fighters stayed together in a large group , but in the second week of October , some of them moved to a different location . Those remaining stayed in the same place on Promyka Street until mid @-@ November , when they were contacted by Ala Margolis , a courier from the Home Army , who had previously managed to leave the city . Margolis and a " rescue squadron " of five people returned to get the rest of the group out . The Germans had begun a systematic search and destruction of ruined houses near the hiding place , which meant time was running out . Dressed as nurses and doctors , with clothes and Red Cross IDs provided by Dr. Lesław Węgrzynowski , director of the Home Army sanitation unit , the rescue squadron and the seven in hiding made their way out of the city through two German checkpoints . The group consisted of five men and two women : Edelman , Cukierman , Cywia Lubetkin ( later , Cukierman 's wife ) , Tosia Goliborska , Julek Fiszgrund , Tuwia Borzykowski , and Zygmunt Warman . The first checkpoint was crossed during dinner , and the Germans did not bother to examine the group , but at the second , an SS officer noticed that Warman , who was lying in a stretcher , was wearing combat boots . He yelled , " These are Polish bandits ! " , but one of the escorts dressed as a nurse quickly declared that the patients in the stretcher were ill with typhus . The SS soldiers backed off , and the group moved on its way . 
