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 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.[13][14]

References

  1. ↑ Mahoney, M. H. (1993). Women in Espionage: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-87436-743-0.
  2. ↑ Bard, Mitchell Geoffrey (2001). The Complete History of the Holocaust. Greenhaven Press. ISBN 978-0-7377-0373-3.
  3. ↑ "A cemetery of letters and words". Haaretz.
  4. ↑ Kopel, David B. (16 February 2017). The Morality of Self-defense and Military Action: The Judeo-Christian Tradition. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-4408-3278-9.
  5. ↑ "How Jewish women fought back against the Nazis during a 1943 uprising in Poland". cbc.ca.
  6. ↑ Batalion, Judy (18 March 2021). "Opinion | The Nazi-Fighting Women of the Jewish Resistance". The New York Times.
  7. ↑ The National Jewish Monthly. B'nai B'rith. 1965.
  8. ↑ Roland, Paul (2017-07-11). The Jewish Resistance: Uprisings against the Nazis in World War II. Arcturus Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78828-463-9.
  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". www.thefirstnews.com.
  10. ↑ "IDEA - ALM : Niuta Tajtelbaum, Jewish Communist and member of the Polish Armia Ludowa underground in Warsaw". infocenters.co.il.
  11. ↑ Batalion, Judy (2021-03-18). "Opinion | The Nazi-Fighting Women of the Jewish Resistance". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-06-10.
  12. ↑ Karpieszuk, Wojciech (23 March 2021). "Żydowska bojowniczka zabijała w Warszawie gestapowców. Nieznaną historię opisał "New York Times"". Wyborcza.pl. Retrieved 2021-06-10.
  13. ↑ Rowińska, Patrycja (2021-04-03). "Przygody Niuty Tajtelbaum. Historia czy hagiografia?". Do Rzeczy (in Polish). Retrieved 2021-06-10.
  14. ↑ Leszek, Żebrowski (13 April 2021). "Komunistyczna mitologia: Jak powraca skompromitowana propaganda". Nasz Dziennik.
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