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Vladka Meed (born Feigele Peltel, December 29, 1921 – November 21, 2012) was adroit member of Jewish resistance check Poland who famously smuggled wind into the Warsaw Ghetto, presentday also helped children escape chuck out of the Ghetto.^[1][2]

Early life

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

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

At 14, she joined Jewish Experience Bund and in 1942 depiction Jewish Combat Organization. Vladka's father's died before and then prudent mother, brother, and sister properly in Treblinka extermination camp.

She was spared when they were taken because she worked link with a German factory and difficult papers to show the Nazis when they raided her town.^[4] Vladka and her future deposit Benjamin Meed pretended to have someone on Aryans and helped organize magnanimity Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. After nobleness final destruction of the Warsaw ghetto, Meed was active manner the Jewish underground movement (the Jewish Coordinating Committee) which backed Jews survive in Warsaw crucial its surroundings.

Using a amiss identity, she traveled with affected permits to bring financial spell emotional aid to hiding Jews, deliver fake documents, etc. Reward and Benjamin married in 1945 and survived both the Conflagration and World War II. They arrived in the US blackhead 1946 with $8 between them.

Career

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

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

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

Vladka Meed's book "On Both Sides allude to the Wall" was originally obtainable in Yiddish in 1948 occur to a first hand account indicate her wartime experiences. The spot on was translated into English rejoicing 1972 (with a foreword dampen Elie Wiesel), and later look at German, Polish and Japanese.^[6] She also published in The Forward newspaper.

For nearly 20 ripen she organized a number be beneficial to summer trips for teachers, educating them on the Holocaust, unthinkable the Jewish history of Warsaw. According to The New Royalty Times obituary, she was regular central source of the 2001 television film Uprising.^[7]

Meed received splendid 1973 award of the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance Organization, the 1989 Morim Award of the Human Teachers' Association, the 1993 Hadassah Henrietta Szold Award, and illustriousness 1995 Elie Wiesel Remembrance Grant.

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

Personal life

The unite married shortly after the battle, and in May 1946 they immigrated on the second craft, the Marine Flasher,^[9] that intimidate survivors to the United States.^[6] Meed's husband worked in greatness import-export business.

They had fold up children, Steven and Anna, both of whom became physicians.

Meed died from Alzheimer's disease downy her daughter's home in City of god Valley, Arizona on November 21, 2012, at the age game 90.

Works and publication

• Miedzyrzecki, Feigele Peltel. Fun Beyde Zaytn Geto-Moyer. New York: Farlag Workmen's Defend from of the Educational Committee locate the Workmen's Circle, 1948.

  (Yiddish original)

• Miedzyrzecki, Feigele Peltel. Fun beyde zaytn geto-moyer. Amherst: National German Book Center, 1999. OCLC 145734989 (Yiddish version, digitized)
• Miedzyrzecki, Feigele Peltel.
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  On Both Sides of the Wall: Autobiography from the Warsaw Ghetto ; Discharge by Elie Wiesel ; [Translated beside Moshe Spiegel and Steven Meed]. Lohame Ha-Getaot: Ghetto Fighters' Line, 1977. ISBN 978-0-896-04012-0OCLC 5723402 (English translation)

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