Tema Schneiderman

From left to right, Tema Schneiderman, Bela Hazan and Lonka Korzybrodska, taken at a Gestapo Christmas party, 1941

Tema Schneiderman (Tema Sznajderman) was a Jewish Polish woman who worked as a courier in the Jewish resistance in German-occupied Eastern Europe before and during World War II.[1] Born in 1917, she was one of a number of young Jewish women who traveled between Jewish ghettos to report on conditions, share information, reduce isolation, and encourage resistance.[2]

She was using documents under Polish name Wanda Majewska issued in Krakow on May 14, 1942.[3]

Schneiderman was especially active in the ghettos in Warsaw, Vilnius, and Bialystok. On January 18, 1943, she was captured in the Warsaw Ghetto and deported to the Treblinka death camp, where she was killed.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Tema Sznajderman". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 2024-01-13.
  2. ^ Silver Ochayon, Sheryl (January 13, 2024). "The Female Couriers during the Holocaust". Yad Vashem.
  3. ^ Tema Sznajderman Kennkarte, 1942
  4. ^ Tema Schneiderman, courier of the Dror youth movement and a member of the Jewish underground in the Bialystok ghetto., retrieved 2024-01-13


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