| Niuta Tajtelbaum | |
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| Born | Ryfka Tajtelbaum (1917-10-31)October 31, 1917 Łódź |
| Died | July 1943(1943-07-00) (aged 25) Warsaw |
| Other names | Wanda, Wanda Witwicka |
Niuta Tajtelbaum (31 October 1917 – July 1943) was a Jewish resistance fighter in Warsaw, Poland, during World War II.
Niuta Tajtelbaum was born as Ryfka Tajtelbaum on October 31, 1917, in Łódź. Her father was Icek Majer Taitelbaum, a factory owner. During the war, she was a courier for the Jewish Combat Organization and the Communist Gwardia Ludowa (GL). She also smuggled weapons and people. 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". In 1943, Teitelbaum shot five Nazi soldiers in one day. She was wanted by the Gestapo, which placed a bounty of 150,000 złotys on her head. She was a member of the "Spetzgruppe" (special unit) that bombed a cinema frequented by Nazi soldiers in Warsaw on 17 January 1943. Tajtelbaum was captured by the Nazis on 19 July 1943, tortured, and killed.
Tajtelbaum's 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.
References
- Mahoney, M. H. (1993). Women in Espionage: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-87436-743-0.
- Bard, Mitchell Geoffrey (2001). The Complete History of the Holocaust. Greenhaven Press. ISBN 978-0-7377-0373-3.
- "Tajtelbaum Niuta | Virtual Shtetl". sztetl.org.pl. Retrieved 2024-02-26.
- "A cemetery of letters and words". Haaretz.
- 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.
- "How Jewish women fought back against the Nazis during a 1943 uprising in Poland". cbc.ca.
- ^ Batalion, Judy (18 March 2021). "The Nazi-Fighting Women of the Jewish Resistance". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
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- Roland, Paul (2017-07-11). The Jewish Resistance: Uprisings against the Nazis in World War II. Arcturus Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78828-463-9.
- "'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.
- "Niuta Tajtelbaum, Jewish Communist and Member of the Polish Armia Ludowa Underground in Warsaw". Ghetto Fighters House Archives. IDEA Information Systems. 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
- Karpieszuk, Wojciech (23 March 2021). "Żydowska bojowniczka zabijała w Warszawie gestapowców. Nieznaną historię opisał "New York Times"". Retrieved 10 June 2021.
Further reading
- Marrin, Albert (1985). "Women in the Secret Armies". The Secret Armies: Spies, Counterspies, and Saboteurs in World War II. Athenaeum Press. pp. 95–132. ISBN 0-689-31165-6.
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