April 1, 2023

It is not easy to choose the last woman for this series, “8 Days Honoring 8 Female Fighters”, given that there are so many incredible

I spent a summer researching and writing my Honors Thesis on Jewish Women’s Acts of Bravery During the Holocaust. I became fascinated with the topic and completely

I can’t write about resistance fighters during World War II and not mention the French Resistance. It is so fascinating that I just started reading

The story of this fighter ends very differently from the other women I have been honoring in this series. At first, I hesitated to include

Faye Schulman was born Faigel Lazebnik on November 28, 1919, in Sosnkowicze, Eastern Poland (now Lenin in Belarus), as the fifth of seven children in

In 1943, at the height of World War II, the allies were focused on defeating the German military. Consequently, they were unable or uninterested in

If you asked me who is one of the most memorable and fearless Jewish female fighters of the century, Zivia Lubetkin is the answer. Zivia

“Do you know who Yehudis was?” I asked my nine-year-old son. He said, “Yes, she’s the woman that chopped off the general’s head.” Surprised and