Tema Schneiderman

Tema Schneiderman was a Jewish Polish woman who worked as a courier in the Jewish resistance in German-occupied Eastern Europe before and during World War II. Born in 1917, she was one of a number of young Jewish women who traveled between Jewish ghettos to report on conditions, share information, reduce isolation, and encourage resistance.
She was using documents under Polish name Wanda Majewska issued in Kraków on May 14, 1942.
Schneiderman was especially active in the ghettos in Warsaw, Vilnius, and Białystok. On January 18, 1943, she was captured in the Warsaw Ghetto and deported to the Treblinka death camp, where she was killed.
A photograph of Tema along with some friends was included at Brandeis as part of the exhibit titled "Lives Eliminated, Dreams Illuminated" in 2023.