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Light of Days, The: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos (Young Reader's Edition)
Judy Batalion
Illustrator: Archival Photos
Ages: 14+
Published: 2021
Publisher: Harper/ Harper Collins
ISBN: 978-0-06-303769-4
Keywords: Poland, zionism, Holocaust, Palestine, WWII, gender. courage
The bravery of eight Jewish young women, among the many, as fighters and couriers against the Nazis in Poland is told. Photographs, glossary, sources, bibliography.