THE COURIERS OF THE JEWISH
UNDERGROUND IN POLAND
DURING THE HOLOCAUST

Abstract | Background | The Couriers | The Fate of Jewish Women in Occupied Poland | Living a Double Identity in Perilous Times | Courier Profiles: Lonka Kozibrodska, and Why Women Were the Couriers | Havka Folman | Frumka Plotnicka…"Die Mameh" | Sima | Gusta Davidson Draenger | Mala Zimetbaum | The Destruction of Crematorium Number Four | What Sustained Them? | Conclusion | Endnotes | Bibliography

Endnotes

1 Yitzak Arad, Yisrael Gutman, Abraham Margaliot, Documents on the Holocaust (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1981) 239.

2 Havka Folman-Raban, They Are Still With Me (M.P. Western Galilee: Ghetto Fighter's Museum, 2001) 85.

3 Folman-Raban 99-100.

4 Dalia Ofer and Lenore J. Weitzman, Women in the Holocaust (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998) 32.

5 Partisans of Vilna dir. Josh Waletsky, documentary, Ciesla Foundation, 1986.

6 Waletsky.

7 Chaika Grossman, The Underground Army (New York: Holocaust Library, 1987) 20.

8 Folman-Raban 51.

9 Folman-Raban 61-2.

10 Israel Gutman, Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994) 126.

11 Grossman 80.

12 Ofer 48.

13 Folman-Raban 46.

14 Carol Rittner and John K. Roth, Different Voices: Women and the Holocaust (New York: Paragon House, 1993) 373.

15 Folman-Raban 67.

16 Zivia Lubetkin, In the Days of Destruction and Revolt (Israel: The Ghetto Fighter's House, 1981) 74.

17 Vladka Meed, On Both Sides of the Wall (Washington: Holocaust Library, 1993) 99.

18 Adina Blady Szwajger, I Remember Nothing More (New York: Pantheon Books, 1990) 76.

19 Folman-Raban 64.

20 Dalia Ofer, "Women in the Jewish Resistance to Nazi Occupation." http://www.interlog.com/~mighty/essays/ofer3.html..

21 Grossman 21.

22 Szwajger 122.

23 Lubetkin 73.

24 Meed 194.

25 Folman 86-87.

26 Grossman 210.

27 Lubetkin 80.

28 Szwajger 81.

29 Grossman 106.

30 Grossman 109.

31 Grossman 74.

32 Folman-Raban 86-87.

33 Antek Zuckerman, A Surplus of Memory: Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993) 46.

34 Zuckerman 48.

35 Meed 188.

36 Szwajger 111.

37 Grossman 46.

38 Grossman 120.

39 Folman-Raban 141-142.

40 Gusta Davidson Draenger, Justyna's Narrative (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996) 11.

41 Vera Laska, Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust: The Voice of Eyewitnesses (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983) 255.

42 Lubetkin 76.

43 Zuckerman 107.

44 Folman-Raban 84-85.

45 Vera Laska 255.

46 Vera Laska 255.

47 Laska 251.

48 Lubetkin 78.

49 Zuckerman 109.

50 Folman-Raban 156-7.

51 Chavka Raban-Folman, "The Liaison Agent," Women in the Holocaust, ed. Jehoshua Eibeshitz and Anna Eilenberg-Eibeshitz (New York: Remember, 1993) 136.

52 Raban-Folman 131.

53 Folman-Raban 96-97.

54 Folman-Raban 63.

55 Raban- Folman 128.

56 Zuckerman 156.

57 Lubetkin 43.

58 Yuri Suhl, They Fought Back (New York: Schocken, 1967) 130-1.

59 Suhl 240.

60 Suhl 241.

61 Ber Mark, Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto (New York: Schocken, 1975) 41.

62 Suhl 51.

63 Lisa Chapnick, "The Grodno Ghetto and Its Underground: A Personal Narrative" ed. Vera Laska Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust: The Voice of Eyewitnesses (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983) 111.

64 Chapnick 115.

65 Draenger 29.

66 Draenger 87.

67 Draenger 70-71.

68 Draenger 71.

69 Meed 94.

70 Meed 137.

71 Grossman 122.

72 Szwajger 82.

73 Grossman 113.

74 Grossman 113.

75 Grossman 114.

76 Grossman 28.

77 "The Trial of Adolph Eichmann, Session 70" The Nizkor Project.

78 "Escape From Auschwitz: Mala Zimetbaum," Women in the Holocaust, Vol. II.,ed. Josh Eibeshitz and Anna Eilenberg-Eibeshitz (Brooklyn: Remember, 1994) 229.

79 Nizcor.

80 Nizcor.

81 Nizcor.

82. Rose Meth, "Women of Valor: Partisans and Resistance Fighters." http://www.interlog.com/~mighty/valor/rose2.htm.

83 Anna Heilman, "Women of Valor: Partisans and Resistance Fighters," http://www.interlog.com/~mighty/valor/anna1.htm.

84 Anna Heilman, "Women of Valor: Partisans and Resistance Fighters," http://www.interlog.com/~mighty/valor/anna2.htm.

85 Yuri Suhl, They Fought Back (New York: Schocken, 1967) 223.

86 Meed 110.

87 Meed 113.

88 Meed 181.

89 Meed 187.

90 Meed 5.

91 Meed 234.

92 Meed 234.

93 Meed 203.

94 Meed 247.

95 Szwajger 85.

96 Szwajger 105.

97 Szwajger 109.

98 Szwajger 137.

99 Zuckerman 106.

100 Folman-Raban 81.

101 Draenger 75.

102 Lubetkin 111.

103 Grossman 210.

104 Chapnick 119.

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