The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos Free Audiobook Download by Judy Batalion

On April 23, 1943, more than a thousand Jews gathered in the Vilna Ghetto. They were there for a wedding. There had been no weddings for so long that the Jewish underground had staged one to spread hope through joy. The groom was Solomon Grundwerk, a Jewish resistance fighter and member of the famous Bialystok group of fighters who were resisting the Nazis by whatever means possible.

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos is the true story of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto, written by Judy Batalion. This audiobook follows Batalion as she unravels the story of women who risked everything to help Jews escape extermination. Their commitment crosses all boundaries and inspires bravery, grit, and hope.

"The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos" is a fantastic, powerful, and deeply moving account of the Jewish resistance in Nazi-occupied France during WWII. It tells the story of women who risked their lives to save others.

In the midst of the darkest chapters of the twentieth century, there were pockets of light. In his book, The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos (published April 2nd, 2019), author Judy Batalion tells the story of women resistance fighters living in German ghettos and concentration camps during World War Two. Thinking they would be freed by the allies after their heroic deeds at Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Ravensbrück and other camps, these women had to endure a horrific ordeal as they watched Nazi officers strut and laugh on TV announcing that Jews were to be exterminated.

The Light of Days is a gripping true story that is the first book to focus on solely women resistance fighters in Hitler's ghettos. It follows the stories of three brave and courageous women: Yitzhak Zuckerman, a young man from Warsaw who becomes active fighting with the Polish Underground Army; Rosalie Auerbach, a Jewish woman who fights for her life as a member of the Jewish Fighting Organization; and Tatjana Lichtenstein, a German communist who joins the resistance movement in Nazi Germany.

This book is a compilation of interviews and testimonies from women who lived through the hunger, terror, and death marches in Hitler's concentration camps during World War II.