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Niuta Tajtelbaum

Niuta Teitelbaum (1917–1943), nicknamed Little Wanda with the braids, was a Jewish resistance fighter in Warsaw, Poland during World War II.[1][2] During the war she acted as a courier for the Jewish Combat Organization and the Communist Gwardia Ludowa (GL),[3] and also smuggled weapons and people.[4] As a resistance fighter, she was known to "known to braid her hair, dress up as a Polish peasant girl, and enter homes and offices in disguise to kill Nazis".[5] In 1943 Teitelbaum shot five Nazi soldiers in one day.[6] During the war she was wanted by the Gestapo, who placed a bounty of 150,000 złotys on her head.[7][8] She is reputed to have placed a bomb in Warsaw's Kammerlichtspiele Cinema, which was frequented by Nazi soldiers, in January 1943.[9][10]

Her story was told in the 2021 book The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos by Judy Batalion.[11][12] The veracity of some of the claims about her life and activities have been questioned, among others by Polish historian Leszek Żebrowski [pl].[13][14]

References[]

  1. ↑ Mahoney, M. H. (1993) (in en). Women in Espionage: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-87436-743-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=DGiFAAAAMAAJ&q=niuta+teitelbaum. 
  2. ↑ Bard, Mitchell Geoffrey (2001) (in en). The Complete History of the Holocaust. Greenhaven Press. ISBN 978-0-7377-0373-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=uXnZAAAAMAAJ&q=niuta+teitelbaum. 
  3. ↑ "A cemetery of letters and words" (in en). https://www.haaretz.com/life/books/1.5354127. 
  4. ↑ Kopel, David B. (16 February 2017) (in en). The Morality of Self-defense and Military Action: The Judeo-Christian Tradition. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-4408-3278-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=QN4jDgAAQBAJ&q=niuta+teitelbaum&pg=PA118. 
  5. ↑ "How Jewish women fought back against the Nazis during a 1943 uprising in Poland". https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-april-19-2021-1.5992940/how-jewish-women-fought-back-against-the-nazis-during-a-1943-uprising-in-poland-1.5993207. 
  6. ↑ Batalion, Judy (18 March 2021). "Opinion | The Nazi-Fighting Women of the Jewish Resistance". https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/opinion/Jewish-women-Nazi-fighters.html. 
  7. ↑ "The National Jewish Monthly" (in en). B'nai B'rith.. 1965. https://www.google.ca/books/edition/The_National_Jewish_Monthly/S9ImAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Little+Wanda+with+the+braids%22&dq=%22Little+Wanda+with+the+braids%22&printsec=frontcover. 
  8. ↑ Roland, Paul (2017-07-11) (in en). The Jewish Resistance: Uprisings against the Nazis in World War II. Arcturus Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78828-463-9. https://www.google.ca/books/edition/The_Jewish_Resistance/cx0sDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Little+Wanda+with+the+braids%22&pg=PT96&printsec=frontcover. 
  9. ↑ "‘I am a Jew. My place is in the struggle against the Nazis for the honour of my people and for a free Poland’: the little-known story of the female assassin who terrorised the Nazis" (in en). https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/i-am-a-jew-my-place-is-in-the-struggle-against-the-nazis-for-the-honour-of-my-people-and-for-a-free-poland-the-little-known-story-of-the-female-assassin-who-terrorised-the-nazis-12076. 
  10. ↑ "IDEA - ALM : Niuta Tajtelbaum, Jewish Communist and member of the Polish Armia Ludowa underground in Warsaw.". https://infocenters.co.il/gfh/notebook.asp?lang=ENG&dlang=ENG&module=search&page=criteria&rsvr=1&param=%3Crsvr_ser%3E@@4@@3@@6@@2@@15@@5@@7@@1@@16@@12@@14%3C/%3E%3Csearch_type%3Eglobal%3C/%3E%3Cuppernav%3Eglobal%3C/%3E%3Cdlang%3EENG%3C/%3E%3Cnrsvr%3EY%3C/%3E%3Csort%3ERE@A%3C/%3E%3Ces_query_reuse_id%3E13%3C/%3E%3Cquantity%3E10%3C/%3E%3Cstart_entry%3E1%3C/%3E%3Cnum_of_items%3E29%3C/%3E%3Cthumb%3E0%3C/%3E%3Csmode%3Edts%3C/%3E%3Cnob%3E-2%3C/%3E%3Cagg_cbx1v1%3Ersvr@1%3C/%3E%3Ccurr_agg%3Ersvr$1%3C/%3E%3Cbook_id%3E28881%3C/%3E%3Cview%3Erecords%3C/%3E&param2=&site=gfh. 
  11. ↑ Batalion, Judy (2021-03-18). "Opinion | The Nazi-Fighting Women of the Jewish Resistance" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/opinion/sunday/Jewish-women-Nazi-fighters.html. 
  12. ↑ Karpieszuk, Wojciech (23 March 2021). "Żydowska bojowniczka zabijała w Warszawie gestapowców. Nieznaną historię opisał "New York Times"". https://warszawa.wyborcza.pl/warszawa/7,54420,26908336,zydowska-bojowniczka-zabijala-w-warszawie-gestapowcow-nieznana.html?disableRedirects=true. 
  13. ↑ Rowińska, Patrycja (2021-04-03). "Przygody Niuty Tajtelbaum. Historia czy hagiografia?" (in pl). https://dorzeczy.pl/kraj/178326/ksiazka-batalion-nabiera-rozglosu-historia-czy-hagiografia.html. 
  14. ↑ Leszek, Żebrowski (13 April 2021). "Komunistyczna mitologia: Jak powraca skompromitowana propaganda". Nasz Dziennik. https://wp.naszdziennik.pl/2021-04-13/350763,komunistyczna-mitologia.html. 
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