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‘I sat by her bed and I started writing’: Madison woman recalls Jewish parents journey out of Poland
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MADISON A beat-up, burgundy leather purse looks perfectly ordinary, but it is part of one family’s story.
It is a story of sacrifice, struggle, adapting to outside forces and, finally, thriving.
The old pocketbook, its lining torn by the many years and many miles of a grueling journey to several countries and three continents, belonged to Chana, 26, newly married to David Sobocki, 32, in 1940.
The young Jewish couple, like tens of thousands of Jews, escaped with their lives from Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II, seeking a new home, a safe harbor. The Soviet Union had already annexed eastern Poland at the time.
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It takes something special to be even more astounding than a Matt Gaetz alibi, but Judy Batalion’s new book, “The Light of Days,” achieves that and much, much more.
Even the book’s subtitle – “The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos” – doesn’t do justice to the amazing tales recounted in this labor of love from the Canadian-born New Yorker.
The 20 young Jewish women she spotlights lived remarkable lives during World War II, and it’s easy to see why Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment snapped up the film rights at manuscript stage in 2018.
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