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The Legacy Project presents

Women Without Fear

The verified stories of 36 Jewish women who resisted the Nazi regime, 1933–1945.

A completed book and a documentary series in development — rigorously sourced, cinematic, and built for classrooms, museums, and screens. At a time of rising antisemitism and fading living memory, The Legacy Project turns real acts of Jewish courage into education that lasts.

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Women Without Fear — book cover by Grant de Graf

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Ninety seconds inside their world

The first major project

What Women Without Fear is

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Thirty-six thoroughly researched biographies of Jewish women who resisted — fighters, rescuers, forgers, and witnesses. Each is drawn from the verified historical record: archival evidence, survivor testimony, and published scholarship. No composites. No invention. The documentary adapts each life into a self-contained cinematic episode for broadcast, streaming, and educational licensing.

36
Jewish women, documented
1933–45
Years of resistance
Book
Complete, preparing for publication
Film
Documentary series in development

Among them:

Róża Robota — smuggled gunpowder into Auschwitz Gisi Fleischmann — negotiated for Jewish lives Rachel Auerbach — kept testimony alive in the Warsaw Ghetto Faye Schulman — photographed the partisan war from within

The complete thirty-six — every name drawn from the verified historical record:

Vitka Kempner 1920–2012 Zivia Lubetkin 1914–1978 Haika Grossman 1919–1996 Rozka Korczak-Marla 1921–1988 Faye Schulman 1919–2021 Rachel Auerbach 1903–1976 Tosia Altman 1918–1943 Masha Bruskina 1924–1941 Frumka Płotnicka 1914–1943 Irena Sendler 1910–2008 Mira Fuchrer 1920–1943 Hannah Szenes 1921–1944 Gisi Fleischmann 1892–1944 Gusta Davidson Draenger 1917–1943 Luba Tryszynska-Frederick 1918–2009 Lonka Korzybrodska 1917–1943 Sara Ginaite-Rubinson 1924–2018 Havivah Reik 1914–1944 Noemi Szac-Wajnkranc 1919–1945 Judith Grunfeld 1902–1998 Chajka Klinger 1917–1958 Sabina Zlatin 1907–1996 Luba Bielicka Blum 1905–1973 Andrée Geulen-Herscovici 1921–2022 Róża Robota 1921–1945 Ella Gärtner 1912–1945 Regina Safirsztajn 1915–1945 Recha Sternbuch 1905–1971 Vladka Meed 1921–2012 Renia Kukielka 1924–2014 Viola Stern Fischerová 1922–2017 Ella Lingens-Reiner 1908–2002 Hilde Meisel (Hilda Monte) 1914–1945 Rosa Jochmann 1901–1994 Irene Harand 1900–1975 Muriel Gardiner 1901–1985
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Why now

The window to preserve these stories is closing

Antisemitism is rising globally — and communities need historically reliable material to answer it.

The last direct witnesses are passing, taking living memory with them.

Jewish women's resistance remains underrepresented in mainstream historical accounts.

Young audiences respond to story and film — among the strongest tools for memory transmission.

What your support funds

Every gift goes into the work

Archival research and rights clearance
Book completion, printing, and donor copies
Documentary development and pitch materials
Translations
Educational licensing and distribution
School, synagogue, museum, and community programming

Sponsorship

Choose what your gift accomplishes

Give at any level. These are the milestones your support makes possible.

$500Research

Research and archival sourcing for one woman's story.

Give $500
$1,500Education

An educational adaptation package for classrooms and institutions.

Give $1,500
$3,000Dedication

Half-page dedication and story sponsorship in the book.

Give $3,000
$5,000Story sponsor

Full story sponsorship with a dedication page.

Give $5,000
$10,000+Partner

Documentary development fund and institutional partnership.

Become a partner

How we operate

Built to withstand scrutiny

Documentary-grade

Every subject is documented, every claim sourced — verified narrative built to serve scholarly and institutional audiences.

Action-oriented

Materials designed for active use in classrooms, museums, and community settings — not passive display.

Lean and transparent

Distributed, remote-first operations. Donations go into production, distribution, and education — not overhead.

Grant de Graf in Jerusalem

The founder

Grant de Graf

Writer and filmmaker, and the author of Women Without Fear. He brings a filmmaker's discipline to the work — rigorous sourcing, cinematic craft, and the conviction that honoring courage means telling these stories with the same precision the people in them brought to their own lives.

Thirty-six stories filled a book; thousands more remain documented and largely untold. The Legacy Project grew out of that work.

The organization

The Legacy Project produces verified Holocaust storytelling communities can use directly

Holocaust education

Curriculum-aligned materials, institutional licensing, and public programming for schools, museums, and community organizations.

Film & documentary

Cinematic production developed from verified sources, built for broadcast, streaming, and educational licensing worldwide.

Combating antisemitism

Documented counter-narrative and community tools that help institutions recognize, name, and challenge antisemitism directly.

On the horizon: Women on the Frontline, a docu-series in development that extends our storytelling to women whose courage shaped history beyond the Holocaust.