Renia Kukielka (born 1924) was a native of Poland and a member of the Zionist youth resistance during the Nazi occupation.[1] From 1943 until she escaped Poland in 1944,[2] she was a member of the Freedom couriers, a group of young people who smuggled food, medicine, and weapons into the Ghettos.[1] During this time, Kukielka disguised herself as a Polish Catholic.[3] In 1943, she was arrested and tortured by the Gestapo, but was able to escape and fled to British Mandate Palestine.[3] She published her memoir in Hebrew, titled, Bindudim Uvamachteret: 1939–1943 B'Polin (While Wandering and in the Underground: 1939–1943 in Poland), when she was nineteen years old, before the end of World War II.[3] She died in Haifa, Israel, in 2014.[3]
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- ^ "Why the Stories of Jewish Women Who Fought the Nazis Remained Hidden for So Long". TIME. 2021-04-08. Retrieved 2024-01-13.
- ^ a b c d Kukielka, Reina (1944). Escape from the Pit: A Woman's Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Poland, 1939–1943.
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