Elizabeth R. Hyman, THE GIRL BANDITS OF THE WARSAW GHETTO: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising | Oblong Books & Music | Literary & Books | Chronogram Magazine

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Elizabeth R. Hyman, THE GIRL BANDITS OF THE WARSAW GHETTO: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising

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Oblong Books
Free. Registration Requested. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is one of the most storied events of the Holocaust, yet previous accounts of have almost entirely focused on its male participants. In The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto, Holocaust historian Elizabeth Hyman introduces five young, courageous Polish Jewish women—known as “the girls” by the leadership of the resistance and “bandits” by their Nazi oppressors—who were central to the Jewish resistance as fighters, commanders, couriers, and smugglers.