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The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance by Judy Batalion

The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance by Judy Batalion

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One of the most important stories of World War II, The Light of Days is a soaring landmark history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who inspired Poland's Jewish youth groups to resist the Nazis,

With courage, guile and nerves of steel, these 'ghetto girls' smuggled guns in loaves of bread and coded intelligence messages in their plaited hair. They helped build life-saving systems of underground bunkers and sustained thousands of Jews in safe hiding places. They bribed Gestapo guards with liquor, assassinated Nazis and sabotaged German supply lines.

The Light of Days at last reveals the real history of these incredible women whose courageous yet little-known feats have been eclipsed by time. Judy Batalion - the granddaughter of Polish Holocaust survivors - follows these real-life heroines through the savage destruction of the ghettos, arrest and internment in Gestapo prisons and concentration camps and, for a lucky few, through the end of the war and into the twenty-first century.

The Light of Days is an unforgettable true tale of exceptional bravery, female friendship and survival in the face of staggering odds.

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