... brilliantly researched.

In [Battalion's] capa­ble hands, their dis­parate voic­es are suc­cess­ful­ly woven togeth­er to cre­ate a grip­ping and hor­ri­fy­ing narrative.

Why, Batalion wonders, had she not heard these women’s stories before? She stumbled across them only by chance on the dustier shelves of London’s British Library. The problem she then confronted in writing this book, which pulses with both rage and pride, was choosing which women to include and which to leave out. Her desire to pay tribute to as many as possible is understandable, but a simpler narrative with fewer subjects might have been even more powerful..

Writing with passion and novelistic license, Batalion takes readers deep into the psyches of these women.

... in her well-researched and riveting chronicle The Light of Days, Judy Batalion brings these unsung heroines to the forefront.

... a conscious attempt to restore that missing page.

... scrupulously researched.

... fascinating.

Stories of Jewish women who resisted the Nazi regime have been woefully neglected in modern history.

Resounding history of Jewish women who fought the German invaders in World War II.

Memoirist Batalion (White Walls) delivers a remarkable portrait of young Jewish women who fought in the Polish resistance during WWII.