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Judy Batalion's new book, The Light of Days, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture, brings largely unknown stories to light.

Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbours and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland— some still in their teens — helped transform the Jewish youth groups into resistance cells to fight the Nazis. These “ghetto girls” paid off Gestapo guards, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade, and helped build systems of underground bunkers. They bombed German train lines and blew up a town’s water supply. They also nursed the sick and taught children.

Sponsors: Soloway JCC Greenberg Families Library and The Shoah (Holocaust) Committee of the Jewish Federation of Ottawa and Max and Tessie Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies

Moderated by Deirdre Butler, Associate Professor of Religion at Carleton University and Director of the Max and Tessie Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies.