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The Role of Women in the Resistance

Season 1 Episode 1 | 5m 36s

Because men could so easily be identified as Jews, women played an outsized role in the Jewish resistance, risking their lives daily to procure arms and rescue other Jews. One of those female resistance fighters was Bela Hazan.

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