In May 1946, a reporter from the Yiddish newspaper, The Jewish Daily Forward, waited for Vladka Meed and her husband, Benjamin, as they disembarked from one of the first ships carrying European refugees from World War II to New York. The Jewish socialist publication knew that the 24-year-old Meed (a Bundist from childhood) had already spoken and written in Europe about her experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto resistance, and wanted its chance to ask her about them. By December 1942, Meed (born Feigele Peltel) was the sole survivor of her family. Her father had died from illness, and her mother,...
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