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Cargando... The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos (edición 2020)por Judith Batalion
Información de la obraThe Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos por Judy Batalion
  
Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  Griffin_Reads | Feb 26, 2024 |   But that being said, I do struggle with the way the stories are written. There's lots of situations where we are shown the leading ladies "last words" but I have a hard time believing them? Maybe that's my bias, but when the accounting themselves from the resource materials is rather vague and may or may not be really factual, (ie from the afterwords by the author herself) its rather frustrating. (  ) MiserableFlower | Jan 21, 2024 | While dozens of women carried out rebellious acts, which consisted of everything from espionage missions for Moscow to flirting with Nazis, or bribing them with whisky, wine and pastries, a handful form the book’s narrative arc. The most detailed story is that of Renia Kukielka, who was among the few who survived, escaping to Palestine in 1944. With her sister Sarah, the Kukielka sisters were couriers for Freedom, one of the prewar youth movements that provided a network for the resisters. Renia’s memoir, published in 1945, is a rare first-person account bearing witness to the women’s motivations, their ingenuity in surviving, their loyalty to their comrades and the losses they suffered. When the Nazis invaded their hometown of Będzin in 1939, the Kukielka family had fled to relatives in nearby Jędrzejów where they were later forced into a ghetto, one of the 400 established throughout the country. With her ‘Polish looks’ and an education that had given her fluent Polish, Renia Kukielka was able to acquire fake documents and return to Będzin, where she joined the resistance, networks of young Jews who ‘created a novel kind of family life to help heal from the ones that had been destroyed’. Read the rest of the review at HistoryToday.com. Julie Wheelwright is the author of Sisters in Arms: Female Warriors from Antiquity to the New Millennium (Osprey, 2020). HistoryToday | Sep 1, 2023 | ) GordonPrescottWiener | Aug 24, 2023 |  ) Elise3105 | Aug 13, 2023 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Also on the USA Today, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Globe and Mail, Publishers Weekly, and Indie bestseller lists. One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a spectacular, searing history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who became resistance fightersâ??a group of unknown heroes whose exploits have never been chronicled in full, until now. Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbors and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Polandâ??some still in their teensâ??helped transform the Jewish youth groups into resistance cells to fight the Nazis. With courage, guile, and nerves of steel, 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 flirted with German soldiers, bribed them with wine, whiskey, and home cooking, used their Aryan looks to seduce them, and shot and killed them. They bombed German train lines and blew up a town's water supply. They also nursed the sick, taught children, and hid families. Yet the exploits of these courageous resistance fighters have remained virtually unknown. As propulsive and thrilling as Hidden Figures, In the Garden of Beasts, and Band of Brothers, The Light of Days at last tells the true story of these incredible women whose courageous yet little-known feats have been eclipsed by time. Judy Batalionâ??the granddaughter of Polish Holocaust survivorsâ??takes us back to 1939 and introduces us to Renia Kukielka, a weapons smuggler and messenger who risked death traveling across occupied Poland on foot and by train. Joining Renia are other women who served as couriers, armed fighters, intelligence agents, and saboteurs, all who put their lives in mortal danger to carry out their missions. Batalion follows these women through the savage destruction of the ghettos, arrest and internment in Gestapo prisons and concentration camps, and for a lucky fewâ??like Renia, who orchestrated her own audacious escape from a brutal Nazi jailâ??into the late 20th century and beyond. Powerful and inspiring, featuring twenty black-and-white photographs, The Light of Days is an unforgettable true tale of war, the fight for freedom, exceptional bravery, female friendship, and survival in the face of staggering odds. NPR's Best Books of 2021 National Jewish Book Award, 2021 Canadian Jewish Literary Award, 202 No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The stories of these women are absolutely incredible. These women were able to accomplish so much in their resistance. The bravery and strength they had is immense, and their stories deserve to be told.
I just don't think Judy Batalion told these stories in the way they deserved. The narration of their stories jumped back-and-forth between different people, making it even more difficult to tell who was being talked about due to their many different aliases. It also repeated some of the information so many times, like the specific ways in which they disguised themselves, that it felt as if the focus was less on these women and what they accomplished and more on the general lives of Jews in Europe at that time.
These women's thoughts were also mentioned throughout the book, with no real indicator of where Batalion got these thoughts from. Because of this, combined with the slightly monotonous audiobook reading, there were times it felt more like a fictionalized retelling of what these women had done, almost to distance the author and reader from the actual events that occurred. (