Dawid (David) Wdowià Âski (; 1895âÂÂ1970) was a psychiatrist and doctor of neurology in the Second Polish Republic. After the 1939 invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, he became a political leader of the Jewish resistance organization called à »ydowski Zwiàzek Wojskowy (Jewish Military Union, à »ZW) active before and during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
Dawid Wdowià Âski was born in 1895 in BÃÂdzin. He studied at universities in Vienna, Brno and Warsaw, and became a psychiatrist. Wdowià Âski was a member of the right-wing organization Hatzohar, which was founded in Paris in 1925.
Before World War II, Wdowià Âski gave up psychiatry through the influence of Ze'ev Jabotinsky, who urged him to devote himself fully to the cause of Revisionist Zionism. Wdowià Âski became a chairman of the Revisionist Zionist party called Polska Partia Syjonistyczna.
In the summer of 1942, during the occupation of Poland, Wdowià Âski founded, along with many Jews from the Polish Army and Polish Jewish political leaders, the clandestine Jewish Military Union (à »ZW) in the Warsaw Ghetto. Some of the members of this group included Dawid Apfelbaum, Józef Celmajster, Henryk Lifszyc, Kaà Âmen Mendelson, Paweà  Frenkiel and Leon Rodl. Wdowià Âski was never a military commander, serving instead as political head of the à »ZW.
After the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Wdowià Âski was sent to various Nazi concentration camps, which he survived.
After the war, Wdowià Âski settled in the United States. Meanwhile, eyewitness accounts of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising were filtered through testimonies of former members of the left-leaning à »OB. These accounts (also adopted by the postwar Polish Communist state) diminished both the roles and the importance of the à »ZW and Wdowià Âski. One such writer, Israel Gutman, was an activist in Hashomer Hatzair. Guttman's perspective continued in authoritative citations of Barbara Engelking and the Polish Center for Holocaust Research, who described Wdowià Âski as a senior activist in the Polish branch of Jabotinsky's New Zionist Organization; i.e. the "revisionist leader in the ghetto [who, in his memoir] attributes himself in command of the fighting organisation of this political movement." Another à »OB fighter (Icchak Cukierman) wrote, "The Revisionists had seceded from the World Zionist Organization; and before the war, all socialist movements, including the Zionists, saw them as the Jewish embodiminent of Fascism." Wdowià Âski candidly noted the pro-Soviet political orientation of some leftist Jews following the Soviet invasion of Poland: "The second, the confused political orientation, was largely because many Jewish leaders were reared in the spirit of the Russian Revolution, and they thought they could translate the ideas of the class struggle into Zionist terms."
In 1961, Wdowià Âski served as a witness at the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem.
The situation with the historical record led Wdowià Âski, in 1963, to publish his own memoir, And We Are Not Saved, in which he writes about his involvement with the à »ZW and the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Wdowià Âski was fiercely opposed to Jewish collaboration with Germany inside the ghettos, or any post-war reconciliation with them. This theme pervades his memoirs as well as his correspondence.
Dawid Wdowià Âski died in 1970 after suffering a heart attack at a commemoration ceremony in Tel Aviv for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. He was buried in the Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery.