Judy Batalion: ...that strength and courage can be passed down through generations

Nobody Told Me!

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🗓️ 24 April 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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We love to learn about the lives of remarkable people and find out how they coped during difficult times. On this episode, we’ll hear about some of the unsung heroines of World War Two—the brave young Jewish women in the ghettos of the Nazi occupation in Poland. They saw and acknowledged the truth of their time and risk their lives in the fight for justice and freedom.

Joining us is author Judy Batalion, who did painstaking research in writing the new book, The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos. It’s a story that’s so inspirational, fascinating and important that Steven Spielberg has optioned it for a major motion picture.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens and I'm Jan Black.
0:15.9	And we'd love to learn about the lives of remarkable people and find out how they cope during difficult times
0:21.1	on the show. On this episode, we'll learn about some of the unsung heroines of World War II,
0:27.2	the brave young Jewish women in the ghettos of the Nazi occupation in Poland. They saw and
0:33.2	acknowledged the truth of their time and risked their lives in the fight for justice and freedom.
0:38.7	And joining us is author Judy Battalion, who did painstaking research in writing the new book,
0:44.1	The Light of Days, the untold story of women resistance fighters in Hitler's ghettos.
0:50.2	It's a story that is so inspirational, fascinating, and important that Steven Spielberg has
0:55.4	optioned it for a major motion picture.
0:58.0	Judy, we thank you so much for joining us.
1:00.2	Well, thank you so much for having me.
1:01.9	I'm really excited to be here.
1:04.3	Paint the picture for us, if you will, of the ghettos in the Nazi occupation in Poland
1:09.6	during World War II and the female resistance fighters in those ghettos in the Nazi occupation in Poland during World War II and the female resistance
1:12.2	fighters in those ghettos? Sure. So just for some context, there were over 400 ghettos in Poland
1:21.7	in World War II. Nazis set up ghettos to imprison Jews.
1:28.3	These were usually in what were the formerly poor areas of cities and towns,
1:34.3	and they threw out all Christians who were living there and forced all the Jews, the local Jews, to move in.
1:40.3	They were usually extremely crowded. The ghettos were very small. You could have several
1:46.5	families sharing room. They were suffered from tremendous hunger. There was disease. There was thirst.
1:55.7	And people were truly terrified. They didn't know what was going on. They were being tortured. There was,
2:04.7	you know, they lived in fear of death constantly. People felt fully occupied both physically and
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