Niuta Tajtelbaum
Polish Jewish WWII resistance fighter (1917–1943)
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Niuta Tajtelbaum (31 October 1917 – July 1943) was a Jewish resistance fighter in Warsaw, Poland, during World War II.[1][2]
October 31, 1917
Niuta Tajtelbaum was born as Ryfka Tajtelbaum on October 31, 1917, in Łódź. Her father was Icek Majer Taitelbaum, a factory owner.[3] During the war, she was a courier for the Jewish Combat Organization and the Communist Gwardia Ludowa (GL).[4] She also smuggled weapons and people.[5] 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".[6] In 1943, Teitelbaum shot five Nazi soldiers in one day.[7] She was wanted by the Gestapo, which placed a bounty of 150,000 złotys on her head.[8][9] 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.[10][11]
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.[7][12]
