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Commemorating Kristallnacht

A Free, Virtual JBC Author Talk by Elizabeth Hyman on Her Just-Released Bold History The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto

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Women of the Jewish resistance come alive in this revisionary history of the Polish Holocaust. – Kirkus Reviews

While the uprising’s end­ing is known, The Girl Ban­dits of the War­saw Ghet­to tells a sto­ry of such hero­ism, and Hyman’s researched por­trait is so cap­ti­vat­ing, that this retold piece of Jew­ish his­to­ry is dif­fi­cult to put down and impos­si­ble to forget." - JBC

With exten­sive use of pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary sources, Hyman has retold this famil­iar sto­ry of resis­tance and upris­ing with an infu­sion of detail and dra­ma. The courage, orga­ni­za­tion, ded­i­ca­tion, and inven­tive­ness of the fea­tured young women, who faced life-and-death sit­u­a­tions on a dai­ly basis, con­tin­ues to amaze.

Eliz­a­beth R. Hyman, descen­dant of Pol­ish Jews who fled Europe in 1939 and made their way, as refugees, to the Unit­ed States, has writ­ten the his­to­ry blog, HIS­TORIC­I­TY (was already tak­en) since 2011. Visit her website to learn more: https://www.elizabethhyman.com/. Read an essay by Hyman on her research: https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/listening-to-the-silence-uncovering-the-lives-of-jewish-female-resistance-workers

About Kristallnacht (the November pogrom, November 9-10, 1938: (from the Yad Vashem website) " During the pogrom 91 Jews were murdered, more than 1,400 synagogues across Germany and Austria were torched, and Jewish-owned shops and businesses were plundered and destroyed. In addition, the Jews were forced to pay “compensation” for the damage that had been caused and approximately 30,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps." To learn more about Kristallnacht and view Yad Vashem's online exhibit and resources, including recorded interviews, click here: https://wwv.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/kristallnacht/index.asp