Ships of the Line

June 19, 2021 Arpeegy

As Liberator of MAKE, I have taken to naming my ships after historical female freedom fighters as a form of honor.  My Federal Corvette proudly bears the name Niuta Teitelbaum.  As the ancient Earth author Judy Batalion wrote for The New York Times on March 18, 2021, in her article The Nazi-Fighting Women of the Jewish Resistance:

“In 1943, Niuta Teitelbaum strolled into a Gestapo apartment on Chmielna Street in central Warsaw and faced three Nazis. A 24-year-old Jewish woman who had studied history at Warsaw University, Niuta was likely now dressed in her characteristic guise as a Polish farm girl with a kerchief tied around her braided blond hair.

She blushed, smiled meekly and then pulled out a gun and shot each one. Two were killed, one wounded. Niuta, however, wasn’t satisfied. She found a physician’s coat, entered the hospital where the injured man was being treated, and killed both the Nazi and the police officer who had been guarding him.

‘Little Wanda With the Braids,’ as she was nicknamed on every Gestapo most-wanted list, was one of many young Jewish women who, with supreme cunning and daring, fought the Nazis in Poland.”

I can think of no more worthy name for a ship dedicated to restoring freedom, liberty, and democracy in the Federation.  Good battles my fellow commanders.