How Hitler’s rage after Operation Valkyrie shaped a nine-year-old’s war Janet Bond Brill, PhD
SS forces in Wola, Warsaw Uprising, August 1944. Photo credit: Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-696-0426-22 / Leher / CC-BY-SA 3.0
August 5, 1944. Wola District, Warsaw.
Amid smoke, rubble, and gunfire, a nine-year-old girl ran for her life.
Her code name was KAJTEK.…
She was nine years old when she joined the Polish Home Army, the youngest soldier in the entire resistance force. A Jewish child hiding under a false Polish Catholic identity, she chose to fight back against the Nazis who were murdering her people. Nine when she ran messages through sniper-infested streets during the Warsaw Uprising.…
