The Jewish Voice
March 26, 2022

This is a very well-written, powerful, important and sad book. It is about young women, usually between seventeen and thirty, who give themselves to the fight against the Nazi Holocaust with everything they have.

Tablet Magazine
March 25, 2022

Rokhl’s Golden City: Changing how we think about the past—and whose stories matter—can move narratives from the margins to the center

Forbes
March 24, 2022

Goodreads has released a list of the 20 most popular biographies and histories of women, according to their members, published over the last 10 years.

Bookriot
March 7, 2022

The traditional historical narratives that put male experiences at the center have the unfortunate tendency to draw a veil over the contributions of women. This tendency deprives us of the knowledge about the experiences of half of those who came before us, across all spheres of human history – politics, science, literature, art.

Wall Street Journal
Sept. 3, 2021

1. “The Light of Days” illuminates the compelling if little-known stories of the courageous young women, some of them still in their teens, who helped turn youth groups into resistance cells in Nazi-occupied Poland.

TLS
July 23, 2021

In The Light of Days, Judy Batalion has uncovered a trove of unknown or forgotten information about the Holocaust of genuine import and impact.

Los Angeles Review of Books
July 17, 2021

MONTREAL-BORN AUTHOR and essayist Judy Batalion, who wrote White Walls: A Memoir About Motherhood, Daughterhood, and the Mess in Between, embarked on an entirely different project more than a decade ago while living in London, pursuing her PhD in art history, and performing as an actor and comic.

The Globe and Mail
July 2, 2021

Three books by Canadian authors reveal new information, new perspectives to add to the Holocaust literary canon

Shondaland
June 7, 2021

Judy Batalion, the author of the critically acclaimed The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos, was raised in a community of Holocaust survivors in Montreal and educated at Harvard.

The Spectator
June 5, 2021

Judy Batalion celebrates the women of the Warsaw ghetto whose courage and ingenuity saved many Jews from certain death

The Economist
May 1, 2021

Judy Batalion brings to light half-forgotten tales of astounding courage.

51% (Northeast Public Radio)
April 15, 2021

This week on 51%, we hear the untold story of women resistance fighters in Hitler's ghettos.

C-Span Book TV
April 10, 2021

Judy Batalion, the daughter of Holocaust survivors and author of The Light of Days, and Rebecca Donner, author of All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days, shared the stories of women who fought against Germany during World War II. This was a virtual event hosted by the San Antonio Book Festival.

C-Span Book TV
April 18, 2021

Judy Batalion recounted the Jewish women who served as resistance fighters against the Nazis in Poland during World War II. This was a virtual event hosted by the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City.

Irish Times
April 18, 2021

Book review: The unspeakable is succeeded by the unthinkable in this passionately written history.

“Heroic girls” the historian Emmanuel Ringelblaum called them, writing in 1942 from the misery of the Warsaw ghetto. “Nothing stands in their way. Nothing deters them. The story of the Jewish woman will be a glorious page in the history of Jewry during the present war.”

The Jewish Chronicle
April 8, 2021

Of the hundreds of terrifying incidents recorded by Judy Batalion in her powerful book, The Light of Days, one, perhaps, encapsulates the overwhelming problems faced by young Jews in Poland during wartime.

The Jerusalem Post
April 7, 2021

Zelda Treger was a resistance fighter in disguise. A Nazi and a police officer caught her, after she was denounced as a Jew. The police officer allowed her to live in exchange for gold, but forced Zelda to his apartment. The police officer’s landlord, however, did not approve of his lady guest and threatened the officer. Zelda managed to escape in the riot that ensued. Nonplussed, she continued on her mission to smuggle weapons into the ghetto.