World War II

SHADOW WARRIORS

THE LIGHT OF DAYS The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos

By Judy Batalion. 558 pp. William Morrow, 2021. $28.99.

IN THE SPRING OF 2007, Canadian author Judy Batalion was perusing London’s British Library for information on Hannah, already optioned for film by Steven Spielberg.

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