Speakers: Judy Batalion, Trudy Gold

A New York Times bestseller and already optioned by Steven Spielberg, The Light of Days author Judy Batalion joins us live from the US to discuss what Philippe Sands called “an untold story of rare and captivating power” of the Polish Jewish women who took on the Nazis.

These ‘ghetto girls’, many in their teens, had witnessed the brutal murder of their families. With courage, guile and nerves of steel they became the heart of a wide-ranging resistance network, smuggling guns in loaves of bread and coded intelligence messages in their plaited hair. They helped build life-saving systems of underground bunkers and sustained thousands of Jews in safe hiding places. They bribed Gestapo guards with liquor, assassinated Nazis and sabotaged German supply lines.

In this special free online event White Walls author Judy Batalion – a contributor to the Washington Post, Vogue and the Jerusalem Post – will be in conversation with historian and educator Trudy Gold.