Adapting Untold Holocaust Stories for Young Readers

Tablet
April 6, 2021

Every author looks forward to her book’s publication date. But for Judy Batalion, today is doubly important, because she has two books coming out.

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos—excerpted today in Tablet—tells the story of the young Jewish women and teenage girls all over Poland who transformed Jewish youth groups into resistance factions, and who helped build systems of underground bunkers, paid off the Gestapo, and bombed German train lines, as the Nazis destroyed their communities and families. The groundbreaking, thoroughly documented history—already optioned for a movie by Steven Spielberg—is published by William Morrow and runs nearly 600 pages. Batalion’s second book, carrying the same title but running half the length, is the young reader’s editionof the story, published by HarperCollins.

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