Defying Expectations: Women Resistance Fighters during the Holocaust

Renia Kukielka sewed fake IDs into her skirts to save Jewish lives in German-occupied Poland. Vladka Meed, passing as a Christian, smuggled correspondence and weapons to support the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. And Frumka Plotnicka, a leader in the underground, once hid guns in a potato sack and was killed while battling the Nazis in Będzin.
Women in the Jewish resistance wrote memoirs and gave testimonies after World War II, and scholars have written about these women in recent decades. Why do their stories of courage and cunning still surprise us? Join us for the virtual Monna and Otto Weinmann Annual Lecture to learn more about their motivations and contributions and the role of gender in Jewish resistance.
Opening remarks
Dr. Janice Weinman Shorenstein, former CEO and Executive Director, Hadassah
Speaker
Dr. Judy Batalion, Author, The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos, and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors
Moderator
Dr. Sara R. Horowitz, Professor of Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada
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