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How a young woman smuggled weapons into the Warsaw Ghetto

JL;DR SUMMARY Vladka Meed's memoir, as detailed in a revised edition with contributions from Steven Meed and Samuel Kassow, recounts her harrowing experiences as a weapon smuggler during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish Labor BundHolocaust EducationWarsaw GhettoJewish ResistanceNazi OccupationSamuel KassowVladka MeedWeapon SmugglingAryan SideSteven Meed

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Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"Vladka Meed takes the reader into the heart of the Warsaw Ghetto, with its charged atmosphere of hope, terror and despair."
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
"At the University of Michigan, when I discuss the Warsaw Ghetto uprising with students in my course on the history of the Jews in Eastern Europe, I often get this response: Why didnt anyone tell us about this in our Holocaust education classes? Its so important!"

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