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Judy Battalion is the author of The Light of Days, the untold story of women resistance fighters in Hitler's ghettos. Judy was born and raised

in Montreal, where she grew up speaking English, French, Yiddish, and Hebrew, and trying to stay warm.

She studied the history of science at Harvard and moved to London to pursue a PhD in art history.

All the while, she worked as a curator, researcher, editor, lecturer,

comic, MC, scriptwriter, dramatured, performer, actor, producer, translator, and a temp.

Eventually, she transformed these experiences into material

and wrote essays and articles

for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vogue, the Forward Salon, the Jerusalem Post,

and many other publications. Her stories about family relationships, the generational transmission

of trauma, pathological hoarding, and militant minimalism came together in her book, White

Walls, a memoir about motherhood,

daughterhood, and the mess in between. White Walls was optioned by Warner Brothers, for whom

Judy is currently developing the TV series cluttered. Back in 2007, during her phase of career

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