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The light of days : women fighters of the jewish resistance - their untold story / Judy Batalion

The light of days : women fighters of the jewish resistance - their untold story / Judy Batalion
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ISBN 9780349011578
Shelf Location 940.53/BAT
Author Batalion, Judith author
Title The light of days : : women fighters of the jewish resistance - their untold story / / Judy Batalion
Publication Details London ::
2021 Virago,,
Collation xii, 558 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations, portraits, map ; ; 24 cm. ;
Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Ghetto girls -- Devils or goddesses -- 'No border will stand in their way' -- The emotional legacy.
Abstract/Summary Judy Batalion, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, discovered an extraordinary story of women who fought the Nazis. The "ghetto girls" paid off Gestapo guards, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade, helped build systems of underground bunkers. They flirted with Nazis, bought them off with wine, whiskey and home cooking, and shot and killed them. They helped the sick and taught the kids, they bombed German train lines and blew up Vilna's water supply. There has been no book in the English language that brings together the incredible and integral stories of Jewish female resistance fighters. A propulsive narrative history, The Light of Days will at last tell the true story of these incredible women. It follows a group of intimately bound resistance fighters in the harrowing year of 1943 as they prepare for insurgence and find themselves in ever graver danger. At its centre is Renieh Kukelkohn, a smuggler and messenger from a small city in Poland who scurried by foot and by train across her war torn country at constant risk of death in service of defeating Hitler. The result is an unforgettable story about feminism, female friendship and revolt.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance -- Poland
Jewish women in the Holocaust
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Personal narratives
Jews -- Persecutions -- Poland
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