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Before she got taken to the ghettos (early 20's)

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Before she got taken to the ghettos (early 20's)

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“In the shipwreck of life - for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes.”

"Everything she knew came from living on the scarce side of mercy

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Saidel, Rochelle, “The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women”, Jewish women’s Archive, 2022, https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/meed-vladka Accessed 15 February 2022

Bernstein, Adam, “Vladka Meed, courier for the Jewish resistance during WWII, dies at 90”, The washington Post, 22 November 2012 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/vladka-meed-courier-for-the-jewish-resistance-during-wwii-dies-at-90/2012/11/22/96518e5c-34c9-11e2-bfd5-e202b6d7b501_story.html Accessed 15 February 2022

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Her name was Vladka Meed, her name was given to her from Feigele Peltel. She was in the Jewish underground in the Warsaw ghetto, she did this by pretending to be a Christian outside of the walls. She was fluent in Polish and had a typical “Aryan” look. She became a successful underground courier, she smuggled weapons over the wall to the Jewish Fighting Organization. Meed came to New York and rapidly started following the war and then in 1948 she finally released a memoir about all of her experiences so others could know about the truth. The memoir was titled “Sides of the Wall” but the book was all in Yiddish. She lectured about the Holocaust a lot and was always an active member in Holocaust education and memorlization. She was vice president in the Jewish Labor Committee, she also ran the Yiddish Cultural and Welfare Department for many years. She received many awards in her lifetime.

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Vladka when she got moved into the ghettos (age 21)

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Vladka when she got moved into the ghettos (age 21)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx2u5uUu3DE

(2:28 - 3:00)

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She simply would act as a christian outside of the walls since it was easier with her typical “aryan” look but then she would turn around and give the unlucky people help with living and fighting back to not give up. She also smuggled weapons over the wall to give to the Jewish Fighting Organization.

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She moved on and didn’t receive any punishment that is known.

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She helped start more Holocaust education in the United States, and the lives of thousands of teachers and students throughout the country encouraged by her strong vision, keen intelligence, and extreme determination.

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She thought it was wrong for the Jews and others to be treated like animals and thought everyone decided to resist and help the unlucky people by giving the organizations firearm and other weapons to help resist with her.