Temat: How Jewish women fought the Nazis

How Jewish women fought the Nazis
They smuggled weapons, sabotaged German railways and died in combat: Historian Judy Batalion recovers the important stories of Jewish female resistance.
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It's a short day in February 1943. Winter has a cold grip on the Jewish ghetto in Bedzin, a city in Poland occupied by Nazi Germany. Amid overcrowded houses stands a special building: the heart of the Jewish youth organization Freiheit (English: freedom) — and the headquarters of Jewish resistance against the Nazis.

On this day, women and men have come together in this building to make a momentous decision. They were able to obtain documents that will permit them to smuggle some of them out of the occupied territories. Should their leader, the Jewish-Polish woman Frumka Plotnicka, use these papers to travel to The Hague and represent the Jewish people before the International Criminal Court?

All eyes turn to Plotnicka. "No," she says. "If we must die, then let us die together. But let us strive for a heroic death."

There is another young woman in the same room, Renia Kukielka. Together, these women will go on to become the face of female Jewish resistance to the Hitler regime in occupied Poland.

This is how the historical events of that night are portrayed by historian Judy Batalion in her book The Light of Days. The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos. Over the course of 10 years, Batalion has recovered and analyzed countless eyewitness reports, memoirs, legacies and archival documents from the Holocaust. She has talked to survivors and their children and grandchildren all over the world.

Through this painstaking work, she has managed to reconstruct a history that had been lost for decades — in fact, one that has never been properly told: how Jewish women resisted the Nazi occupation in Poland. With tenacity, courage and sometimes violence. ...
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The German translation of the book is set to published this month and comes at a time of ongoing debate about how to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive as eyewitnesses grow increasingly older and pass away. Speaking with DW, translator Maria Zettner underlined how important it is that this history is told, particularly in Germany.
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