The German Jewish Women Who Resisted the Nazis

From the time Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, numbers of German Jews resisted his regime. Jewish women played a significant part in this opposition. Until recently, their role has been overlooked. German Jewish women who defied the Nazi regime took great risks in doing so. They faced sexual assault, sadistic torture, and being gruesomely executed, oftentimes by beheading. Despite these dangers, a number of them continued to defy Hitler's government. Their acts of daring in the face of the Nazi plan to annihilate all Jews has received little scholarly or public attention.