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Elizabeth Hyman

Jul 20, 2026

21:22
I mean, you know, like, That's a long way from Vilna to Warsaw, I mean, and all of the fraught, you know, dangers between those two places.
21:32
So I'm going to start off in September 1939.
21:37
A lot of the youth groups based in Warsaw fled to the east when the bombs started coming down.
21:43
And so those earliest youth groups, first they relocated to Vilna, then Lvov, and in While relocating, they sat down and sort of took everything's temperature and realized that they didn't know how the rest of their membership had been faring during the invasion.
22:02
So they started off just sending messengers, couriers between isolated Jewish communities in occupied Poland.
22:10
And the people they tended to choose for these missions were young women, firstly because If they were caught on the road and told to drop their pants, they would not show a circumcised penis.
22:23
Jewish men and young men in general were being actively impressed for labor at this point.
26:04
And like, and there's almost this kind of, as you put, as you portray it kind of this, this, this over the top confidence that you have to portray, which then gets you out of a lot of situations.

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