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    May 13, 2021 2 minutes

    The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance – Their Untold Story

    By Judy Batalion

    Virago, £20, hardback, 576 pages

    A testament to the power of human courage in the bleakest of times, this book illuminates the previously overlooked stories of Jewish women confined to the ghettoes of Eastern Europe by the Nazis during World War II.

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