Righteous Furies: The Heroic Jewish Women Who Resisted the Nazis

The Economist
May 1, 2021

Judy Batalion brings to light half-forgotten tales of astounding courage.

The great chronicler of the Warsaw ghetto, Emanuel Ringelblum, wrote of the female Jewish couriers who travelled across Nazi-occupied Poland: “Without a murmur, without a second’s hesitation, they accept and carry out the most dangerous missions…The story of the Jewish woman will be a glorious page in the history of Jewry during the present war.”

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