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          Interview Summary: Vladka Meed, born in Warsaw, Poland, describes growing up in a lower middle class family; attending a Yiddish secular..

          Vladka Meed

          Vladka Meed

          Vladka Meed in 2005

          Born

          Feigele Peltel


          (1921-12-29)December 29, 1921

          Warsaw, Poland

          DiedNovember 21, 2012(2012-11-21) (aged 90)

          Paradise Valley, Arizona, U.S.

          Other namesFeigele Peltel Miedzyrzecki Feige Peltel
          SpouseBenjamin Meed
          Children2

          Vladka Meed (born Feigele Peltel, December 29, 1921 – November 21, 2012) was a member of Jewish resistance in Poland who famously smuggled dynamite into the Warsaw Ghetto, and also helped children escape out of the Ghetto.[1][2]

          Early life

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

          From the first days of the Nazi occupation, Feigele had been a member of the underground.

        1. Vladka Meed: [interview] ; Dates / Origin: Date Issued: Place: New York: Publisher: American Jewish Committee, Oral History Library ; Library locations.
        2. Interview Summary: Vladka Meed, born in Warsaw, Poland, describes growing up in a lower middle class family; attending a Yiddish secular.
        3. This astonishing true story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, told through the lens of Holocaust survivor and educator Vladka Meed, introduces readers to a.
        4. Vladka Meed, born Feigele Peltel (), escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto with a map of Treblinka hidden in her shoe.

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

          At 14, she joined Jewish Labor Bund and in 1942 the Jewish Combat Organization.

          Vladka's father's died before and then her