Judith Batalion
Author
Language
English
Description
"One of the most important untold 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 helped weaponize Poland's Jewish youth groups to resist the Nazis. Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland--some still in their teens--became the nerves of a wide-ranging...
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A memoir of mothers and daughters, hoarding, and healing. Judy Batalion grew up in a house filled with endless piles of junk and layers of crumbs and dust; suffocated by tuna fish cans, old papers and magazines, swivel chairs, tea bags, clocks, cameras, printers, VHS tapes, ballpoint pens...obsessively gathered and stored by her hoarder mother. The first chance she had, she escaped the clutter to create a new identity--one made of order, regimen,...
Author
Publisher
AST
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Russian
Description
They were ordinary women, girls and teenage girls ... who once had to see how cruelly their relatives and friends were killed, to know hunger, humiliation and bullying, to find themselves behind the barbed wire of the Polish ghettos. But they didn't relent. Didn't break. Didn't give up. And they founded their own resistance movement, which even the "specialists" from the Gestapo could not cope with. They did not choose means in the fight against the...
