Bedzin

Zaglembie became one of the centers of Jewish youth movements all over occupied Poland, attracting about two thousand youngsters to Bedzin and Sosnowiec.

Chajka Klinger. 2009

In many of the underground fighting units, there were women as courageous and daring as the men, and sometimes even more so: Zelda Treger the partisan from Vilna, Frumka Plotniczki in Bedzin, Haika Grosman in Bialystok, Rivka Glanz in Chestochowa.

Poland: Women Leaders in the Jewish Underground During the Holocaust. 2009

Here, medical care providers are seen treating a sick child in the ghetto in Bedzin, Poland.

Women's Health in the Ghettos of Eastern Europe. 2009

There was also dual leadership without a love relationship: Hershel Springer and Frumka Plotniczki together led Dror in Bedzin without being lovers but with considerable mutual understanding.

Poland: Women Leaders in the Jewish Underground During the Holocaust. 2009

Young women such as Hella Schüpper-Rufeisen (Warsaw – Cracow), Ina Gelberd (Bedzin – Zawiercie), Fredka Oxenhendler (Sosnowiec – Cracow) and many other delegate-couriers traveled with forged documents, revolvers, ammunition and instructions hidden in their clothing.

Poland: Women Leaders in the Jewish Underground During the Holocaust. 2009

They were the first written evidence about the Warsaw uprising and the Bedzin underground.

Chajka Klinger. 2009

In December 1943 she crossed the border to Slovakia with other survivors of the Bedzin underground, bringing her diaries with her.

Chajka Klinger. 2009

This she did following her escape from Bedzin, while hiding in a small village in the vicinity.

Chajka Klinger. 2009

As a result of their activity and the special conditions in the Zaglembie region, which was annexed to the German Reich and where no ghetto was established until 1943, the youth movement in Bedzin flourished during the war.

Chajka Klinger. 2009

Chajka Klinger was born in 1917 in Bedzin (southwest Poland).

Chajka Klinger. 2009