Mira Shelub

Mira Shelub (January 13, 1922 – December 30, 2024) was a Polish Jewish Resistance fighter. She fought against German forces on the eastern front of the second World War as part of a partisan group led by her husband. She also co-wrote a memoir about her experience in the resistance titled Never the Last Road.

Early life Shelub was born in Zdzieciol, Poland, on January 13, 1922 to Chaim and Chana Raznov. The family spent some time here until they eventually escaped into the Lipiczany forest and joined a local partisan group.

Partisan resistance Following her escape from Zdziedciol following German invasion, Shelub began supporting a partisan group led by Norman (Nochum) Shelub, her future husband. Her work largely involved supporting the partisan unit through cooking, cleaning, and general support infrastructure to the partisan group's militant unit. On one noted occasion, Shelub was responsible for carrying ammunition for her husband's machine gun into an active combat zone. It was reported that across her unit, roughly one quarter of the individuals were women.

During her time fighting within the partisan resistance, the local police attacked the area where the family was staying and Mira's mother was killed. Despite surviving the Nazi occupation, her father would fall ill and die following the Soviet liberation of the area.

Later life and death Following the 1944 liberation of her land, Shelub would go on to stay within a displaced persons' camp in Bad Gastein, Austria.

Works Never the Last Road, Lehrhaus Judaica and JFCS Press, 2015.