On Both Sides of the Wall: Memoirs from the Warsaw Ghetto

On Both Sides of the Wall: A Resistance Fighter's Firsthand Account of the Warsaw Ghetto by Vladka Meed and Steven D. Meed is a must read. This book, first written in Yiddish and then translated by her son is an important account of a woman living in the Warsaw Ghetto.

She lost her father to pneumonia, and then later her mother, brother, and sister died in Treblinka. She was outside the apartment when they were taken away, but she looked more Polish than Jewish with a small nose and blue eyes. She was picked to be a courier, a munitions smuggler, a rescuer of small children, and people who escaped the concentration camps, some escaped the camps by squeezing through small openings on the moving trains. There are many stories of bravery show more and courage and also stories of the decimation of the Jewish population inside the Ghettos.

She proved that you can still make a difference even in a frightening situation, even when starving. She wrote more about others than herself, but she decided to take chances and ultimately won for herself, and a group of children, and more people in hiding. Even though there are many tragedies in this book, you have to be inspired by the Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust. This book left me with hope and a sense of the importance of doing as much as you can.
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