Contents

Cover

Title Page

Map of Poland

Dedication

Epigraph

Cast of Characters

Introduction: Battle-Axes

Prologue: Flash Forward—Defense or Rescue?

Part 1: Ghetto Girls

Chapter 1: Po-Lin

Chapter 2: From the Fire, to the Fire

Chapter 3: Founding the Female Fight

Chapter 4: To See Another Morning—Terror in the Ghetto

Chapter 5: The Warsaw Ghetto—Education and the Word

Chapter 6: From Spirit to Blood—Becoming the ZOB

Chapter 7: The Days of Wandering—Homeless to Housekeeper

Chapter 8: To Turn to Stone

Chapter 9: The Black Ravens

Chapter 10: Three Lines in History—A Krakówian Christmas Surprise

Chapter 11: 1943, a New Year—Warsaw’s Minirebellion

Part 2: Devils or Goddesses

Chapter 12: In Preparation

Chapter 13: The Courier Girls

Chapter 14: Inside the Gestapo

Chapter 15: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Chapter 16: Bandits in Braids

Chapter 17: Arms, Arms, Arms

Chapter 18: Gallows

Chapter 19: Freedom in the Forests—The Partisans

Chapter 20: Melinas, Money, and Rescue

Chapter 21: Blood Flower

Chapter 22: Zaglembie’s Jerusalem Is Burning

Part 3: “No Border Will Stand in Their Way”

Chapter 23: The Bunker and Beyond

Chapter 24: The Gestapo Net

Chapter 25: The Cuckoo

Chapter 26: Sisters, Revenge!

Chapter 27: The Light of Days

Chapter 28: The Great Escape

Chapter 29: “Zag nit keyn mol az du geyst dem letstn veg”

Part 4: The Emotional Legacy

Chapter 30: Fear of Life

Chapter 31: Forgotten Strength

Epilogue: A Missing Jew

Author’s Note: On Research

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Notes

Index

Photo Section

About the Author

Also by Judy Batalion

Copyright

About the Publisher