Niuta Tajtelbaum

Niuta Tajtelbaum (31 October 1917 – July 1943), was a Jewish resistance fighter in Warsaw, Poland during World War II.

Niuta Tajtelbaum was born as Ryfka Tajtelbaum on October 31, 1917 in Łódź, her father was Icek Majer Taitelbaum, a factory owner. During the war she acted as a courier for the Jewish Combat Organization and the Communist Gwardia Ludowa (GL), and also smuggled weapons and people. As a resistance fighter, she was "known to braid her hair, dress up as a Polish peasant girl, and enter homes and offices in disguise to kill Nazis". In 1943 Teitelbaum shot five Nazi soldiers in one day. During the war she was wanted by the Gestapo, who placed a bounty of 150,000 złotys on her head. She is reputed to have placed a bomb in Warsaw's Kammerlichtspiele Cinema, which was frequented by Nazi soldiers, in January 1943.

Her story was told in the 2021 book The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos by Judy Batalion.