This is a select bibliography that includes my most significant sources. Additional sources appear in the endnotes. I have used proper names as they are used by the source itself; the spelling does not always accord with my spelling throughout this book.
Archival Sources
Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives, Montreal, Canada.
Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw, Poland.
Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum, Israel.
Israel National Archives, Jerusalem, Israel.
Israel National Library, Jerusalem, Israel.
JDC Archives, New York, USA.
Kibbutz Dafna, Israel.
Massuah International Institute for Holocaust Studies, Tel Yitzhak, Israel.
Moreshet Mordechai Anielevich Memorial Holocaust Study and Research Center, Givat Haviva, Israel.
Ringelblum Archive. (Accessed in various locations and formats.)
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC.
Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel.
YIVO, New York, USA.
The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, UK.
Online Sources
Below are frequently used online sources; I have included the home page but not each individual article.
Arolsen Archives–International Center on Nazi Persecution: Online Archive; https://arolsen-archives.org/en/search-explore/search-online-archive.
“Before They Perished” Exhibition; https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/QRNJBGMI.
Beit Hatfutsot: My Jewish Story, The Open Databases of the Museum of the Jewish People; https://dbs.bh.org.il.
Brama Cuckermana Foundation; http://www.bramacukermana.com.
Centropa; centropa.org.
Culture.pl; https://culture.pl/en.
Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute; http://www.jhi.pl/en.
Geni; https://www.geni.com/family-tree/html/start.
Historic Films Stock Footage Archive, YouTube channel; https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPbqbljQ7cgkUqX2m33d6uw.
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Holocaust Oral History Collection; http://multimedia.huji.ac.il/oralhistory/eng/index-en.html.
Holocaust Historical Society; https://www.holocausthistoricalsociety.org.uk.
JewishGen; https://www.jewishgen.org/new.
Jewish Partisan Education Foundation; http://www.jewishpartisans.org.
Jewish Records Indexing–Poland; http://jri-poland.org.
Jewish Virtual Library; https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org.
Jewish Women’s Archive: The Encyclopedia of Jewish Women; https://jwa.org/encyclopedia.
Michael Kovner; https://www.michaelkovner.com.
Modern Hebrew Literature–a Bio-Bibliographical Lexicon; https://library.osu.edu/projects/hebrew-lexicon/index.htm.
Museum of the History of Polish Jews POLIN: Virtual Shtetl; https://sztetl.org.pl/en.
Museum of the History of Polish Jews POLIN: Polish Righteous; https://sprawiedliwi.org.pl/en.
Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrow (National Digital Archive); https://audiovis.nac.gov.pl.
The New York Public Library: Yizkor Book Collection; https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/yizkor-book-collection#/?tab=navigation.
Organization of Partisans, Underground Fighters and Ghetto Rebels in Israel; http://eng.thepartisan.org/ and http://archive.c3.ort.org.il/Apps/WW/page.aspx?ws=496fe4b2-4d9a-4c28-a845-510b28b1e44b&page=8bb2c216-624a-41d6-b396-7c7c161e78ce.
Polish Center for Holocaust Research: Warsaw Ghetto Database; http://warszawa.getto.pl.
Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Center: In Their Own Words; http://www.intheirownwords.net.
Sharon Geva; http://sharon-geva.blogspot.com/p/english.html.
Silesiaheritage YouTube channel; https://www.youtube.com/user/silesiaheritage/featured.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Holocaust Encyclopedia; https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org.
USC Shoah Foundation: Visual History Archive; https://sfi.usc.edu/vha.
Warsaw Before WW2, YouTube Channel; https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_7UzhH0KCna70a5ubpoOhg.
The World Society of Częstochowa Jews and Their Descendants; https://www.czestochowajews.org.
Yad Vashem: Articles; https://www.yadvashem.org/articles/general.html.
Yad Vashem: Exhibitions; https://www.yadvashem.org/exhibitions.html.
Yad Vashem: Shoah Resource Center; www.yadvashem.org.
Yiddish Book Center: Oral Histories; http://www.jhi.pl/en.
YIVO Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland; http://polishjews.yivoarchives.org.
The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe; https://yivoencyclopedia.org.
Zaglembie World Organization; zaglembie.org.
Exhibitions and Monuments
Faces of Resistance: Women in the Holocaust, Moreshet, Givat Haviva, Israel.
The Paper Brigade: Smuggling Rare Books and Documents in Nazi-Occupied Vilna, October 11, 2017–December 14, 2018, YIVO, New York.
Memorials, Mila 18, Warsaw, Poland.
Memorial, Prosta Street Sewer, Warsaw, Poland.
Permanent Exhibition, Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw, Poland.
Permanent Exhibition, Galicia Jewish Museum, Kraków, Poland.
Permanent Exhibition, Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum, Ghetto Fighters’ House, Israel.
Permanent Exhibition, Mizrachi House of Prayer, Museum of Zagłębie, Będzin, Poland.
Permanent Exhibition, Montreal Holocaust Museum, Montreal, Canada.
Permanent Exhibition, Moreshet, Givat Haviva, Israel.
Permanent Exhibition, Mausoleum of Struggle and Martyrdom, Warsaw, Poland.
Permanent Exhibition, Museum of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
Permanent Exhibition, Museum of Pawiak Prison, Warsaw, Poland.
Permanent Exhibition, Oskar Schindler’s Enamel Factory, Museum of Kraków, Kraków, Poland.
Permanent Exhibition, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland.
Permanent Exhibition, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC.
Permanent Exhibition, Warsaw Rising Museum, Warsaw, Poland.
Permanent Exhibition, Yad Mordechai Museum, Hof Ashkelon, Israel.
Permanent Exhibition, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Permanent Exhibition, Zabinski Villa, Warsaw Zoological Garden, Warsaw, Poland.
Violated, Ronald Feldman Gallery, April 12 to May 12, 2018, New York.
Selected Events
“Hitler Hanging on a Tree: Soviet Jewish Humor During WW2.” Lecture by Anna Shternshis. April 2018. New York. YIVO.
“In Dialogue: Polish Jewish Relations During the Interwar Period.” Lectures by Samuel D. Kassow and Paul Brykczynski, November 15, 2018. New York. Fordham University, Columbia, YIVO.
“Kraków Ghetto: A Walking Tour.” Agi Legutko. June 2018. Kraków, Poland, Jewish Culture Festival.
“Memorial for Warsaw Ghetto, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Commemoration, 75th Anniversary.” April 19, 2018. New York. The Congress for Jewish Culture with Friends of the Bund, the Jewish Labor Committee, the Workmen’s Circle, and YIVO.
Nusakh Vilna Memorial Lecture and Concert. September 16, 2018, and September 22, 2019. New York. YIVO.
Uprising. Screening and Talk. April 22, 2018. New York City. Jewish Partisan Education Foundation, Directors Guild.
Personal Interviews
Rivka Augenfeld, Montreal, Canada, August 10 and 17, 2018.
Ralph Berger, New York, April 10, 2018.
Havi Dreifuss, Tel Aviv, Israel; May 16, 2018.
Sandy Fainer, telephone, November 27, 2018.
Yoram Kleinman, telephone, February 11, 2019 (interview conducted by Elisha Baskin).
Michael Kovner, Jerusalem, Israel, May 17, 2018.
Jacob Harel and Leah Waldman, Haifa, Israel; May 14, 2018.
Barbara Harshav, New York, March 9 and April 23, 2018.
Emil Kerenji, Washington, DC, April 27, 2018.
Agi Legutko, New York, May 2, 2018.
Jonathan Ornstein, Kraków, Poland, June 25, 2018.
Daniela Ozacky-Stern and Yonat Rotbain, Givat Haviva, Israel, May 14, 2018.
Chayele Palevsky, Skype, November 20, 2018.
Katarzyna Person, Warsaw, Poland, June 21, 2018.
Avihu Ronen, Tel Aviv, Israel, May 16, 2018.
Lilian Rosenthal, telephone, November 12, 2018.
Rochelle Saidel, New York, June 8, 2018.
Elaine Shelub, telephone, November 6, 2018.
Anna Shternshis, New York, April 9, 2018.
David Silberklang, Jerusalem, Israel, May 17, 2018.
Holly Starr, telephone, November 13, 2018.
Michał Trębacz, Warsaw, Poland, June 22, 2018.
Merav Waldman, Skype, October 23, 2018.
Yoel Yaari, Jerusalem, Israel, May 17, 2018.
Racheli Yahav, Tzora, Israel, May 17, 2018.
Eyal Zuckerman, Tel Aviv, Israel, May 15, 2018.
Additional Selected Unpublished Materials
Grabowski, Jan. “The Polish Police: Collaboration in the Holocaust.” Lecture at USHMM, November 17, 2016. Text accessed online.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency Newswire. January 8, 1943. Vol. 10. Number 6. New York.
Kaslow, Maria Wizmur. “Mania: A Gestapo Love Story” and “Vanished.” Family collection.
Kukielka, Renia. Photographs, letter, husband testimony, eulogy. Family collection.
Shchori, Frumi. “Voyage and Burden: Women Members of the Fighting Underground in the Ghettos of Poland as Reflected in their Memoirs (1945–1998).” Thesis, Tel Aviv University, 2006 (Hebrew).
Starr, Holly. Eulogy for Sara Rosnow, 2017.
Unpublished testimony, Azrieli Foundation.
Selected Books
I did not include individual chapters or articles. Many of these books appear in various editions and languages; I have provided relevant information when available.
Hantze and Frumka: Letters and Reminiscences. Tel Aviv, Israel: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1945 (Hebrew).
In Honor of Ala Gertner, Róza Robota, Regina Safirztajn, Ester Wajcblum: Martyred Heroines of the Jewish Resistance in Auschwitz Executed on January 5, 1945. N.p.: n.p., c. 1991 (English, Yiddish, Polish, German, French).
In the Face of Annihilation: Work and Resistance in the Ghettos 1941–1944. Berlin, Germany: Touro College, 2017. Exhibition catalogue.
Portraits of the Fighters: Biographies and Writings of Young Leaders of the Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust. American Friends of the Ghetto Fighters’ Museum.
Voice of the Woman Survivor 9, no. 2. New York: WAGRO Women Auxiliary to the Community of Survivors, Holocaust Resource Centers and Libraries. Spring 1992.
Women of Valor: Partisans and Resistance Fighters. Center for Holocaust Studies Newsletter 3, no. 6. New York: Center for Holocaust Studies, 1990.
Ackerman, Diane. The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story. New York: Norton, 2007.
Baumel-Schwartz, Judith Taylor, and Tova Cohen, eds. Gender, Place and Memory in the Modern Jewish Experience: Re-Placing Ourselves. London, UK: Vallentine Mitchell, 2003.
Berés Witold and Krzysztof Burnetko. Marek Edelman: Being on the Right Side. Translated by William R. Brand. Kraków, Poland: Berés Media, 2016.
Berger, Ralph S., and Albert S. Berger, eds. With Courage Shall We Fight: The Memoirs and Poetry of Holocaust Resistance Fighters Frances “Fruma” Gulkowich Berger and Murray “Motke” Berger. Margate, UK: ComteQ, 2010.
Blady-Szwajger, Adina. I Remember Nothing More: The Warsaw Children’s Hospital and the Jewish Resistance. New York: Pantheon, 1990.
Brzezinski, Matthew. Isaac’s Army: A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland. New York: Random House, 2012.
Burstein, Dror. Without a Single Case of Death: Stories from Kibbutz Lohamei Haghetaot. Tel Aviv, Israel: Ghetto Fighters’ House/Babel, 2007.
Cain, Larissa. Ghettos in Revolt: Poland, 1943. Paris, France: Autrement, 2003 (French).
Cohen, Rich. The Avengers: A Jewish War Story. New York: Knopf, 2000.
Czocher, Anna, Dobrochna Kałwa, et al. Is War Men’s Business? Fates of Women in Occupied Kraków in Twelve Scenes. Translated by Tomasz Tesznar and Joanna Bełch-Rucińska. Kraków, Poland: Historical Museum of the City of Kraków, 2011. Exhibition catalogue.
Diatłowicki, Jerzy, ed. Jews in Battle, 1939–1945. 4 vols. Warsaw, Poland: Association of Jewish Combatants and Victims of World War II and Jewish Historical Institute, 2009–2015 (Polish).
Diner, Hasia R. We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust, 1945–1962. New York: New York University Press, 2009.
Draenger, Gusta Davidson. Justyna’s Narrative. Translated by Roslyn Hirsch and David H. Hirsch. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.
Draper, Paula J., and Richard Menkis, eds. New Perspectives on Canada, the Holocaust and Survivors. Canadian Jewish Studies, Special Issue. Montreal, Canada: Association for Canadian Jewish Studies, 1997.
Dror, Zvi. The Dream, the Revolt and the Vow: The Biography of Zivia Lubetkin-Zuckerman (1914–1978). Translated by Bezalel Ianai. Tel Aviv, Israel: General Federation of Labor (Histadrut) and Ghetto Fighters’ House, 1983.
Edelman, Marek. The Ghetto Fights. New York: American Representation of the General Jewish Workers Union of Poland, 1946.
Engel, David, Yitzchak Mais et al. Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust. New York: Museum of Jewish Heritage, 2007. Exhibition catalogue.
Engelking, Barbara, and Jacek Leociak. The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.
Epstein, Helen. Children of the Holocaust: Conversations with Sons and Daughters of Survivors. New York: Penguin, 1979.
Feldhay Brenner, Rachel. Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust. University Park, Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press, 2003.
Fishman, David E. The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis. Lebanon, NH: ForEdge, 2017.
Freeze, ChaeRan, Paula Hyman et al., eds. Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, vol. 18, Jewish Women in Eastern Europe. Liverpool, UK: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2005.
Gabis, Rita. A Guest at the Shooters’ Banquet: My Grandfather’s SS Past, My Jewish Family, A Search for the Truth. New York: Bloomsbury, 2015.
Geva, Sharon. To the Unknown Sister: Holocaust Heroines in Israeli Society. Tel Aviv, Israel: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2010 (Hebrew).
Goldenberg, Myrna, ed. Before All Memory Is Lost: Women’s Voices from the Holocaust. Toronto, Canada: Azrieli Foundation, 2017.
Goldstein, Bernard. The Stars Bear Witness. Translated by Leonard Shatzkin. London, UK: Victor Gollancz, 1950.
Grossman, Chaika. The Underground Army: Fighters of the Białystok Ghetto. Translated by Shmuel Beeri. New York: Holocaust Library, 1987.
Grove, Kimberley Sherman, and Judy Geller. Stories Inked. Brighton, Canada: Reflections on the Past, 2012.
Grunwald-Spier, Agnes. Women’s Experiences in the Holocaust: In Their Own Words. Stroud, UK: Amberley, 2018.
Grupińska, Anka. Reading the List. Wołowiec, Poland: Czarne, 2014 (Polish).
Gurewitsch, Brana, ed. Mothers, Sisters, Resisters: Oral Histories of Women Who Survived the Holocaust. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1998.
Gutterman, Bella. Fighting for Her People: Zivia Lubetkin, 1914–1978. Translated by Ora Cummings. Jerusalem, Israel: Yad Vashem, 2014.
Heilman, Anna. Never Far Away: The Auschwitz Chronicles of Anna Heilman. Calgary, Canada: University of Calgary Press, 2001.
Izhar, Naomi. Chasia Bornstein-Bielicka, One of the Few: A Resistance Fighter and Educator, 1939–1947. Translated by Naftali Greenwood. Jerusalem, Israel: Yad Vashem, 2009.
Kalchheim, Moshe, ed. With Proud Bearing 1939–1945: Chapters in the History of Jewish Fighting in the Narotch Forests. Tel Aviv, Israel: Organisation of Partisans, Underground Fighters and Ghetto Rebels in Israel, 1992 (Yiddish).
Katz, Esther, and Joan Miriam Ringelheim, eds. Proceedings of the Conference on Women Surviving the Holocaust. New York: Institute for Research in History, c1983.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara, and Antony Polonsky, eds. POLIN, 1000 Year History of Polish Jews—Catalogue for the Core Exhibition. Warsaw, Poland: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, 2014. Exhibition catalogue.
Klinger, Chajka. I am Writing These Words to You: The Original Diaries, Będzin 1943. Translated by Anna Brzostowska and Jerzy Giebułtowski. Jerusalem, Israel: Yad Vashem and Moreshet, 2017. (Original work published in Hebrew in 2016.)
Kloizner, Israel, and Moshe Perger. Holocaust Commentary: Documents of Jewish Suffering Under Nazi Rule. Jerusalem, Israel: Jewish Agency of Israel and the Rescue Committee for the Jews of Occupied Europe, 1945–1947.
Korczak, Riezl (Ruz’ka). Flames in Ash. Israel: Sifriyat Po’alim, Hakibbutz Ha’artzi Hashomer Hatzair, 1946 (Hebrew).
Korczak, Roszka, Yehuda Tubin, and Yosef Rab, eds. Zelda the Partisan. Tel Aviv, Israel: Moreshet and Sifriyat Po’alim, 1989 (Hebrew).
Kukielka, Renia. Underground Wanderings. Ein Harod, Israel: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1945 (Hebrew).
Kulkielko, Renya. Escape from the Pit. New York: Sharon Books, 1947.
Laska, Vera, ed. Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust: The Voices of Eyewitnesses. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1983.
Laskier, Rutka. Rutka’s Notebook: January–April 1943. Jerusalem, Israel: Yad Vashem, 2007.
Liwer, Dawid. Town of the Dead: The Extermination of the Jews in the Zaglembie Region. Tel Aviv, Israel, 1946 (Hebrew).
Lubetkin, Zivia. In the Days of Destruction and Revolt. Translated by Ishai Tubbin and Debby Garber. Edited by Yehiel Yanay, biographical index by Yitzhak Zuckerman. Tel Aviv, Israel: Am Oved; Hakibbutz Hameuchad; Ghetto Fighters’ House, 1981. (Original work published in Hebrew in 1979.)
Lukowski, Jerzy, and Hubert Zawadzki. A Concise History of Poland. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Meed, Vladka. On Both Sides of the Wall. Translated by Steven Meed. Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1993. (Original work published in Yiddish in 1948.)
Michlic, Joanna Beata, ed. Jewish Families in Europe, 1939–Present: History, Representation and Memory. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2017.
Milgrom, Frida. Mulheres na resistência: heroínas esquecidas que se arriscaram para salvar judeus ao longo da história. Sao Paolo, Brazil: Ipsis, 2016.
Namyslo, Aleksandra. Before the Holocaust Came: The Situation of the Jews in Zaglebie during the German Occupation. Katowice, Poland: Public Education Office of the Institute of National Remembrance, with the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and Yad Vashem, 2014. Exhibition catalogue.
Neustadt, Meilech, ed. Destruction and Rising, The Epic of the Jews in Warsaw: A Collection of Reports and Biographical Sketches of the Fallen. 2nd ed. Tel Aviv, Israel: Executive Committee of the General Federation of Jewish Labor in Israel, 1947.
Ofer, Dalia, and Lenore J. Weitzman, eds. Women in the Holocaust. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998.
Ostrower, Chaya. It Kept Us Alive: Humor in the Holocaust. Translated by Sandy Bloom. Jerusalem, Israel: Yad Vashem, 2014.
Paldiel, Mordechai. Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust. Philadelphia, PA: The Jewish Publication Society; Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017.
Paulsson, Gunnar S. Secret City: The Hidden Jews of Warsaw 1940–1945. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003.
Person, Katarzyna, ed. Warsaw Ghetto: Everyday Life. The Ringelblum Archive, vol. 1. Translated by Anna Brzostowska et al. Warsaw, Poland: Jewish Historical Institute, 2017.
Porat, Dina. The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010.
Prince, Robert M. The Legacy of the Holocaust: Psychohistorical Themes in the Second Generation. New York: Other Press, 1999. (Original work published in 1985.)
Rakovsky, Puah. My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman: Memoirs of a Zionist Feminist in Poland. Translated by Barbara Harshav with Paula E. Hyman. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001.
Rapaport, J. ed. Memorial Book of Zaglembie. Tel Aviv, Israel, n.p., 1972 (Yiddish, Hebrew, English).
Reinhartz, Henia. Bits and Pieces. Toronto, Canada: Azrieli Foundation, 2007.
Ringelblum, Emanuel. Notes From the Warsaw Ghetto: The Journal of Emmanuel Ringelblum. Translated by Jacob Sloan. New York: ibooks, 2006. (Original work published in 1958.)
Rittner, Carol, and John K. Roth, eds. Different Voices: Women and the Holocaust. St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 1993.
Ronen, Avihu. Condemned to Life: The Diaries and Life of Chajka Klinger. Haifa and Tel Aviv, Israel: University of Haifa Press, Miskal-Yidioth Ahronoth and Chemed, 2011 (Hebrew).
Rosenberg-Amit, Zila (Cesia). Not to Lose the Human Face. Tel Aviv, Israel: Kibbutz Hameuchad, Moreshet, Ghetto Fighters’ House, 1990 (Hebrew).
Rotem, Simha “Kazik.” Memoirs of a Ghetto Fighter. Translated by Barbara Harshav. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994.
Rufeisen-Schüpper, Hella. Farewell to Mila 18. Tel Aviv, Israel: Ghetto Fighters’ House and Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1990 (Hebrew).
Saidel, Rochelle G., and Batya Brudin, eds. Violated! Women in Holocaust and Genocide. New York: Remember the Women Institute, 2018. Exhibition catalogue.
Saidel, Rochelle G., and Sonja M. Hedgepeth, eds. Sexual Violence Against Jewish Women During the Holocaust. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2010.
Schulman, Faye. A Partisan’s Memoir: Woman of the Holocaust. Toronto, Canada: Second Story Press, 1995.
Shalev, Ziva. Tossia Altman: Leader of Hashomer Hatzair Movement and of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Tel Aviv, Israel: Moreshet, 1992 (Hebrew).
Shandler, Jeffrey, ed. Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland Before the Holocaust. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002.
Shelub, Mira, and Fred Rosenbaum. Never the Last Road: A Partisan’s Life. Berkeley, CA: Lehrhaus Judaica, 2015.
Solomian-Lutz, Fanny. A Girl Facing the Gallows. Tel Aviv, Israel: Moreshet and Sifryat Hapoalim, 1971 (Hebrew).
Spizman, Leib, ed. Women in the Ghettos. New York: Pioneer Women’s Organization, 1946 (Yiddish).
Tec, Nechama. Resistance: Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Thon, Elsa. If Only It Were Fiction. Toronto, Canada: Azrieli Foundation, 2013.
Tubin, Yehuda, Levi Deror, et al., eds. Ruzka Korchak-Marle: The Personality and Philosophy of Life of a Fighter. Tel Aviv, Israel: Moreshet and Sifriyat Po’alim, 1988 (Hebrew).
Vitis-Shomron, Aliza. Youth in Flames: A Teenager’s Resistance and Her Fight for Survival in the Warsaw Ghetto. Omaha, NE: Tell the Story, 2015.
Wilfand, Yigal, ed. Vitka Fights for Life. Givat Haviva, Israel: Moreshet, 2013 (Hebrew).
Ya’ari-Hazan, Bela. Bronislawa Was My Name. Tel Aviv, Israel: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, Ghetto Fighters’ House, 1991 (Hebrew).
Yerushalmi, Shimshon Dov. Jędrzejów Memorial Book. Tel Aviv, Israel: Jędrzejów Community in Israel, 1965.
Zuckerman, Yitzhak “Antek.” A Surplus of Memory: Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Translated by Barbara Harshav. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993.
Selected Articles
This list includes a select few significant articles that do not appear in the books or online sources listed above.
Bernard, Mark. “Problems Related to the Study of the Jewish Resistance Movement in the Second World War.” Yad Vashem Studies 3 (1959): 41–65.
Fox-Bevilacqua, Marisa. “The Lost, Shul of Będzin: Uncovering Poland’s Once-vibrant Jewish Community,” Ha’aretz, September 7, 2014, https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-the-lost-shul-of-Bedzin-1.5263 609.
Harran, Ronen. “The Jewish Women at the Union Factory, Auschwitz 1944: Resistance, Courage and Tragedy.” Dapim: Studies in the Holocaust 31, no. 1 (2017): 45–67.
Kasonata, Adriel. “Poland: Europe’s Forgotten Democratic Ancestor.” The National Interest. May 5, 2016. https://nationalinterest.org/feature/poland-europes-forgotten-democratic-ancestor-16073.
Kol-Inbar, Yehudit. “‘Not Even for Three Lines in History’: Jewish Women Underground Members and Partisans During the Holocaust.” A Companion to Women’s Military History. Eds. Barton Hacker and Margaret Vining. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2012.
Ofer, Dalia. “Condemned to Life? A Historical and Personal Biography of Chajka Klinger.” Translated by Naftali Greenwood. Yad Vashem Studies 42, no. 1 (2014): 175–88.
The Pioneer Woman, no. 97, April 1944.
Porter, Jack. “Jewish Women in the Resistance.” Jewish Combatants of World War 2 2, no. 3 (1981).
Ringelheim, Joan. “Women and the Holocaust: A Reconsideration of Research.” Signs 10, no. 4 (Summer 1985): 741–61.
Ronen, Avihu. “The Cable That Vanished: Tabenkin and Ya’ari to the Last Surviving Ghetto Fighters.” Yad Vashem Studies 41, no. 2 (2013): 95–138.
———. “The Jews of Będzin.” Before They Perished . . . Photographs Found in Auschwitz. Edited by Kersten Brandt, Hanno Loewy, et al. Oświęcim, Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2001, 16–27.
Szczęsna, Joanna. “Irena Conti.” Wysokie Obcasy. April 21, 2014 (Polish).
Tzur, Eli. “A Cemetery of Letters and Words.” Ha’aretz, August 1, 2003, https://www.haaretz.com/1.5354308.
Vershitskaya, Tamara. “Jewish Women Partisans in Belarus.” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 46, no. 4 (Fall 2011): 567–72.
Yaari, Yoel. “A Brave Connection.” Yedioth Ahronoth. Passover Supplement, April 5, 2018 (Hebrew).
Zariz, Ruth. “Attempts at Rescue and Revolt; Attitude of Members of the Dror Youth Movement in Będzin to Foreign Passports as Means of Rescue,” Yad Vashem Studies 20 (1990): 211–36.
Zerofsky, Elisabeth. “Is Poland Retreating from Democracy?” New Yorker. July 23, 2018.
Films and Audio
Blue Bird. DVD. Directed by Ayelet Heller. Israel, 1998. (Hebrew)
Daring to Resist: Three Women Face the Holocaust. DVD. Directed by Barbara Attie and Martha Goell Lubell. USA, 1999.
The Heart of Auschwitz. DVD. Directed by Carl Leblanc. Canada, 2010.
The Last Fighters. DVD. Directed by Ronen Zaretsky and Yael Kipper Zaretsky. Israel, 2006. (Hebrew)
Partisans of Vilna: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During World War II. Directed by Josh Waletsky. USA, 1986.
Pillar of Fire (Hebrew version, probably episode 13). Viewed at Yad Mordechai Museum. Directed by Asher Tlalim. Israel, 1981. (Hebrew)
Uprising. DVD. Directed by Jon Avnet. USA, 2001.
Who Will Write Our History. Cinema screening. Directed by Roberta Grossman. USA, 2019.
Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War 2. CD. Six Degrees Records, 2018 (Yiddish).
The Zuckerman Code. Accessed online at https://www.mako.co.il/tv-ilana_dayan/2017/Article-bb85dba8ec3b261006.htm. Directed by Ben Shani and Noa Shabtai. Israel, 2018. (Hebrew)