jewish women in the holocaust

"As their communities were being destroyed, groups of Jewish women and teenage girls across Poland began transforming Jewish youth groups into resistance factions. These "ghetto girls" helped build systems of underground bunkers, paid off the Gestapo, and bombed German train lines. At the center of the book is eighteen-year-old Renia Kukielka, who traveled across her war-torn country as a weapons smuggler and messenger. Other women who joined the cause served as armed fighters, spies, and saboteurs, all risking their lives for their missions. Never before chronicled in full, this is the incredible account of the strong Jewish women who fought back against the seemingly unstoppable Nazi regime. It follows the women through arrests, internment, and for a lucky few, into the late 20th century and beyond"--Amazon.

"Drawing on a vast array of sources, including interviews with the last surviving seamstress, this . . . book tells the story of the brave women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, exposing the greed, cruelty and hypocrisy of the Third Reich"--OCLC.

Documents the essential World War II contributions of Jewish-Polish female resistance fighters, sharing the stories of courageous women who risked their lives to work against the Nazis as fighters, intelligence agents and saboteurs.

Tells the story of nearly one thousand young, unmarried Jewish women who boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia, on March 25, 1942, believing they were going to work in a factory for a few months, but instead were sent to Auschwitz, becoming the first official Jewish transport to the Nazi concentration camp. Of those 999 innocent deportees sent to be used for slave labor, only a few would survive.

Presents the untold story of the young Jewish women who became resistance fighters against the Nazis during World War II.

Relates the true account of three pregnant women who met in Auschwitz, where they concealed their pregnancies from infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele and fought for their survival as well as the survival of their newborns as they embarked on a treacherous journey to freedom.

A collection of personal narratives in which men and women explore how their lives were affected by the Holocaust.

Chronicles the life of the oldest living Holocaust survivor (as of 2007), a classically trained pianist who used her love of music to provide hope to her fellow sufferers at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

A biography of the Jewish heroine, Luba Tryszynska, who saved the lives of more than fifty Jewish children in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during the winter of 1944/45.