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Vladka Meed, born Feigele Peltel, was just a teenager when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939. Increasingly devastated by the deportation and murder of 300,000 Jews--including her mother, brother, and sister--who were sent from Warsaw to the death camp of Treblinka, she heeded the call for armed resistance, joining the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB), established in Warsaw in July 1942. With her typically ""Aryan"" looks and fluency in Polish, Vladka could pose as a Gentile, so the ZOB asked her to live on the Aryan side of the wall and serve as a courier. In this role, she smuggled weapons across the wall, helped Jewish children escape from the Ghetto, assisted Jews hiding in the city, and established contact with both Jews in the labor camps and the partisans in the forest. First published in Yiddish by the Educational Committee of the Workmen's Circle in New York in 1948, On Both Sides of the Wall was based on a series of twenty-seven articles Vladka wrote in the Yiddish-language Jewish Daily Forward (Forverts) in 1946-47. In this revised translation, which includes exclusive, new material, Vladka's son, Dr. Steven D. Meed, captures the vibrancy and passion of his mother's original Yiddish text, preserving the testimony and memory of this valiant woman for a new generation of listeners.

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Vladka Meed, born Feigele Peltel, served in the Jewish underground in the Warsaw Ghetto by passing as a Christian outside its walls. Immediately following the Second World War, she settled in New York City with her husband. Her memoir, On Both Sides of the Wall, one of the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust, was first published in Yiddish in 1948. She remained extremely active in Holocaust education and memorialization until her death in 2012. Suzanne Toren is an actor who has appeared on and off Broadway, in regional theaters, and occasionally on TV. Over a period of several decades, she has narrated close to 1000 audiobooks for most major publishers. She has received multiple Audie nominations and many industry awards, including Narrator of the Year and Best Voices of the Year. Making beautifully crafted writing come alive is her passion; she is honored and thrilled to have been able to earn a living doing it.

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