Unlock Now On Both Sides Of The Wall Composed By Vladka Meed Released Through Publication

the TV movie, "Uprising," with Leelee Sobieski She portrayed a young woman named Tosia Altman, In reality, the character she played was a juxtapose of two individuals: Tosia Altman and Vladka Meed, This book is Vladka's memoirs and shows scenes and situations featured in the TV movie, under the guise that it occurred to Tosia.
Tosia is mentioned a few times in this book, but this is wholly Vladka's story,

Great book about a very courageous women in some truly horrific circumstances, Vladka's account of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising is captivating and sad, To read about her constant struggle to aid those in need, only to read two pages later how they were captured or killed is heart wrenching.
Why we continue to be bystanders to this sort of hatred is numbing, Clearly exceptional woman and story, There is also video footage of interviews with Vladka Meed on the internet, highly recommended. A powerful and difficult book about life in Warsaw during the war, It's not always linear, and many chapters are anecdotal in structure rather than following any strict chronological narrative, Not easy to get through, as it is full of specific details of revolting behavior by people who could so easily have been allies through a situation that was dire for all but chose instead to be just as racist as the invaders.
Individual exceptions existed, of course, but they were rare exceptions, Ms. Meed ends with her reaction to the monument at Treblinka, which she saw over thirty years after leaving Poland:
"What remains is this vast and empty field, covered withpointed stones that rise toward the heavens with a silent but piercingly eloquent accusation.
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Accusation, indictment I rarely get angry when reading Holocaust material, This book made me very angry, I had a hard time getting through this book and it took me a while to figure out why, I finally realized that I had mentally categorized it as a memoir, which it somewhat is, but it is largely a record, The book is filled with names of a lot of people that you never really learn anything about and a lot of addresses for places in Warsaw that no longer exist and details of life which are heartbreaking.
There were a couple times when I debated just putting the book down and giving up, but I didn't feel like I should.
In the end, I realized that the purpose of this book is to bear witness to the suffering and death of many individuals who were victims of the Nazis and, to a lesser extent, of the indifference of the Polish people.
I could not have left the book unfinished because if these individuals could live through these horrors, it was my obligation as a human being to at least take the time to be informed.
I was glad to learn more about the history of this portion of World War II, which is not one that receives a great deal of coverage.
Focuses on life in the ghetto, on the "Aryan side," and the resistance of the Jewish people in Poland during the Holocaust, Made the fact that anyone survived even more amazing, The author tells of her narrow escapes in Warsaw as an underground courier working for the Aryan side of the resistance movement, This simple, readable, warm, engaging, and personally inspiring book gave me a much deeper, gutlevel understanding of the Warsaw Ghetto than I'd had previously.
I came to understand the totally untenable psychological position that ordinary people were placed in, as if in some kind of mass sadistic psychological and physical experiment I learned that many endured about as well as I probably would have endured, continually living on the verge of psychological collapse, but I also learned that more than a few rose to levels of remarkable perseverance and outright heroism.
The title "on both sides of the wall" refers to the lives of both the inmates of the ghetto and to those Jews who "escaped" from the ghetto, lived in Warsaw as secret Jews, always at risk of being discovered, betrayed, and killed, and many of whom worked to supply those inside the ghetto with food and arms.
If you're

at all considering reading this book, my advice is: Do, The first book to be published by a Jewish survivor, It is the story of the Jews in Poland during world war II, Vladka, the another, was Jewish and worked mostly for the underground in Warsaw, She takes great care in documenting the lives of all the Jews she met and often includes their code names, their real names, their Polish names anything that would identify these people.
Very interesting book. I'm thankful to Vladka for sharing her experiences, and giving us a peek into what it was like to be Jewish during the Holocaust.


I bought this book after touring The Holocaust Museum in Washington DC and seeing a placard with information about Vladka's bravery and heroism.


There's so much the book didnt get into, that I wanted to know, so now it's time to read books written by other survivors.


I'm giving this to my teen son to read next, Astounding heroism and selflessness. A story that too few know, Vladka Meed is the pen name for Feigele Peltel Miedzyrzecki, .