Listen • 10:59 The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler s Ghettos by Judy Batalion. (Courtesy)
Host Peter O’Dowd speaks with
Judy Batalion, author of the new book “The Light of Days,” which tells the stories of young women resistance fighters in Polish Jewish ghettos during World War II.
Book Excerpt: ‘The Light Of Days’
By Judy Batalion
Spring 1943. It had been six months since Renia Kukiełka had arrived in Bedzin, a town in southwest Poland now annexed by the Third Reich. After fleeing a ghetto, escaping a forced labor camp, running through forests, jumping off a moving train, and pretending to be a Christian housekeeper, nervously genuflecting at weekly church services, she’d come here to join her sister in the Jewish underground. Renia, aged nineteen, quickly became a “courier” in Hebrew, a “kasharit,” or connector. “Courier girls” risked death to connect the locked ghettos where Jews wer
The Light Of Days Tells The Stories Of Young Jewish Women Resistance Fighters In WWII Poland kasu.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kasu.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.