Defying Expectations: Women Resistance Fighters during the Holocaust
United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumRenia 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. […]