BESTSELLING AUTHOR · HOLOCAUST MEMOIRIST · SPEAKER
A Jewish child defied the Third Reich.
Her story was nearly lost.
In Little Edna’s War, Janet Bond Brill tells the astonishing true story of her late mother-in-law—a Jewish girl who escaped the Warsaw Ghetto, lived under a false Catholic identity, joined the Polish Home Army at nine, survived the Warsaw Uprising and two Nazi POW camps, and rebuilt a life after nearly everything had been taken from her.
She was nine years old when she became a soldier.
Born into a Jewish family in Warsaw, Edna escaped the Warsaw Ghetto and survived on the Aryan side under a false Catholic identity. During the Warsaw Uprising, she served as a commissioned child soldier in the Polish Home Army. At the uprising’s surrender—on her tenth birthday—she received two Polish military decorations, including the Cross of Valor.
Holocaust history made personal.
Drawing on rare photographs, wartime documents, archival footage, family memory, and Edna’s recorded testimony, Janet’s multimedia presentations bring audiences inside one Jewish child’s extraordinary journey through resistance, survival, and rebirth.
Programs are available for Holocaust centers, synagogues, churches, JCCs, schools, universities, libraries, book clubs, and community organizations.
A story grounded in testimony and historical record.
FOREWORD BY
Dr. Michael Berenbaum
Holocaust historian and former project director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
ARCHIVED TESTIMONY
More than five hours of Edna’s testimony preserved by the USC Shoah Foundation
A BESTSELLING AUTHOR
More than 200,000 copies of Janet Bond Brill’s books in print
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Janet Bond Brill, PhD 