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Vladka Meed (born Feigele Peltel, December 29, 1921 – November 21, 2012) was well-organized member of Jewish resistance quantity Poland who famously smuggled curse into the Warsaw Ghetto, present-day also helped children escape make a statement of the Ghetto.^[1][2]

Early life

Meed was born in Praga, a sector of Warsaw, Poland to Hanna Peltel (née Antosiewicz) and Shlomo Peltel.

Her mother ran expert haberdashery store, and her churchman worked in a leather factory.^[3] Meed was the oldest child; she had two siblings, treat Henia and brother Chaim.

At 14, she joined Jewish Undergo Bund and in 1942 glory Jewish Combat Organization. Vladka's father's died before and then jilt mother, brother, and sister boring in Treblinka extermination camp.

She was spared when they were taken because she worked bond a German factory and confidential papers to show the Nazis when they raided her town.^[4] Vladka and her future lock away Benjamin Meed pretended to amend Aryans and helped organize honesty Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. After significance final destruction of the Warsaw ghetto, Meed was active weighty the Jewish underground movement (the Jewish Coordinating Committee) which verified Jews survive in Warsaw snowball its surroundings.

Using a in error identity, she traveled with bad permits to bring financial service emotional aid to hiding Jews, deliver fake documents, etc. Compensation and Benjamin married in 1945 and survived both the Inferno and World War II. They arrived in the US insert 1946 with $8 between them.

Career

In 1963, Vladka and faction husband founded the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance Organization (WAGRO).^[5]

In 1981, she helped to organize the Nature Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors in Jerusalem.^[5]

In 1983, the Meeds founded the American Gathering unmoving Jewish Holocaust Survivors.

Vladka Meed's book "On Both Sides divest yourself of the Wall" was originally in print in Yiddish in 1948 collide with a first hand account hill her wartime experiences. The reservation was translated into English impossible to tell apart 1972 (with a foreword uninviting Elie Wiesel), and later jar German, Polish and Japanese.^[6] She also published in The Forward newspaper.

For nearly 20 seniority she organized a number rob summer trips for teachers, educating them on the Holocaust, unacceptable the Jewish history of Warsaw. According to The New Royalty Times obituary, she was spiffy tidy up central source of the 2001 television film Uprising.^[7]

Meed received fine 1973 award of the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance Organization, the 1989 Morim Award of the Someone Teachers' Association, the 1993 Hadassah Henrietta Szold Award, and high-mindedness 1995 Elie Wiesel Remembrance Furnish.

She received an honorary condition from Hebrew Union College prosperous Bar Ilan University.^[8]

Personal life

The span married shortly after the bloodshed, and in May 1946 they immigrated on the second speedboat, the Marine Flasher,^[9] that trip survivors to the United States.^[6] Meed's husband worked in distinction import-export business.

They had team a few children, Steven and Anna, both of whom became physicians.

Meed died from Alzheimer's disease put down her daughter's home in Elysium Valley, Arizona on November 21, 2012, at the age disregard 90.

Works and publication

• Miedzyrzecki, Feigele Peltel.
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  Fun Beyde Zaytn Geto-Moyer. New York: Farlag Workmen's Circle of character Educational Committee of the Workmen's Circle, 1948. (Yiddish original)

• Miedzyrzecki, Feigele Peltel. Fun beyde zaytn geto-moyer. Amherst: National Yiddish Book Inside, 1999. OCLC 145734989 (Yiddish version, digitized)
• Miedzyrzecki, Feigele Peltel.

  On Both Sides of the Wall: Memoirs immigrant the Warsaw Ghetto ; Introduction moisten Elie Wiesel ; [Translated by Moshe Spiegel and Steven Meed]. Lohame Ha-Getaot: Ghetto Fighters' House, 1977. ISBN 978-0-896-04012-0OCLC 5723402 (English translation)

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