This is the story of Niuta Teitelbaum, who was 25 when she died. Niuta, a member of the communist organization Spartakus, studied (or perhaps even completed her undergraduate studies in) history at Warsaw University. She was a courier with both the ZOB and the Communist Gwardia Ludowa (GL) or People’s Guard, and served in a seemingly endless number of missions.
In her most famous operation, she killed two Gestapo agents and wounded a third. After the wounded agent was taken to hospital, she disguised herself as a physician, entered the hospital and killed both the Gestapo agent and the police officer who had been guarding him. During the Warsaw Ghetto revolt, she participated in a raid on a German machine-gun position that had been placed atop the ghetto walls. It is said that she once walked into a German command post dressed like a Polish farm girl. She removed the kerchief that had been covering her hair and an SS soldier who was fascinated by her blue eyes and blond braids addressed her, excitedly exclaiming, “Are there other Lorelei like you among your people?!” Niuta took out her pistol and shot the German to death. The Germans hunted her down and, after a long period of time, finally caught and killed her.
This blurb ripped word-for-word from an eight-year-old HaAretz article on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The article is specifically a review of Obczytanie Listy (A Reading of the List) by Anka Grupinska, a biographical dictionary of the Jewish Combat Organization’s fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto.
In their careful excision, the OP completely removed almost all references to Niuta Teitelbaum’s Jewishness (I could only identify two references) while conveniently retaining the bulk of her Communist antifa credentials. Niuta Teitelbaum is removed from her context of being a Jewish fighter against the Nazi genocide machine, who also happened to be a Communist, and placed into a context where only her status as a Communist is relevant.
The ZOB wasn’t just an anti-fascist military organization. It was a Jewish resistance group. They were fighting literally for their lives. They fought against being deported by the thousands to the death camps. They would have fought against the Communists if the Communists had been trying to pull the same stuff the Nazis did.
To only glorify Teitelbaum’s Communist actions while almost completely omitting how she fought against the annihilation of her people, is disingenuous and wrongly scrubs the Jewish resistance movements of their most important feature: their Jewishness.