Through this painstaking work, she has managed to reconstruct a history that had been lost for decades, in fact, never been properly told: how Jewish women resisted the Nazi occupation in Poland. Over the course of ten years, Batalion has recovered and analysed countless eyewitness reports, memoires, legacies and archival documents, she has talked to survivors of the Shoah and their children and grandchildren all over the world. The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos. This is how the historical events of that night are portrayed by historian Judy Batalion in her book Together, these women will go on to become the face of female Jewish resistance to the Hitler regime in occupied Poland. There is a young woman in the same room: Renia Kukielka. "If we must die, then let us die together. Should their leader, the Jewish-Polish woman Frumka Plotnicka, use these papers to travel to Den Haag and represent the Jewish people before the International Criminal Court?Īll eyes turn to Frumka. They were able to obtain documents that will permit them to smuggle some of them out of the occupied territories. On this day, women and men have come together in this building to make a momentous decision. and the headquarters of Jewish resistance against the Nazis. Amid overcrowded houses stands a special building: the heart of the Jewish youth organisation
Winter has a cold grip on the Jewish ghetto in Bedzin, a city in Poland occupied by Nazi Germany.
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