Niuta Tajtelbaum (31 October 1917 – July 1943), was a
Jewish resistance fighter in Warsaw, Poland during
World War II.[1][2]
Niuta Tajtelbaum was born as Ryfka Tajtelbaum on October 31, 1917 in Łódź, her father was Icek Majer Taitelbaum, a factory owner.[3] During the war she acted as a courier for the
Jewish Combat Organization and the Communist
Gwardia Ludowa (GL),[4] and also smuggled weapons and people.[5]
As a resistance fighter, she was "known to braid her hair, dress up as a Polish peasant girl, and enter homes and offices in disguise to kill Nazis".[6] In 1943 Teitelbaum shot five
Nazi soldiers in one day.[7] During the war she was wanted by the
Gestapo, who placed a bounty of 150,000
złotys on her head.[8][9] She is reputed to have placed a bomb in
Warsaw's Kammerlichtspiele Cinema, which was frequented by Nazi soldiers, in January 1943.[10][11]
Her story was told in the 2021 book The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos by Judy Batalion.[12][13] The veracity of some of the claims about her life and activities have been questioned, among others by Polish historian
Leszek Żebrowski [
pl].[14][15]