Today is Yom Hashoah, the Jewish day for commemorating the Holocaust. This is a photo of Nieuta Teitelbaum who was part of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. She was 20 and on every Gestapo most wanted list. She was nicknamed “Little Wanda with the Braids” because she was known to braid her hair, dress up as a Polish peasant girl, and enter homes and offices in disguise to kill Nazis. She trained women in weapons. A third of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising resistance movement were women. 200 young women would smuggle explosives into marmalade jars, sacks of potatoes, teddy bears, and handbags because the Nazis were so misogynist they wouldn’t think to look. They also taped weapons to their bras. Nieuta was caught and murdered in 1943.
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