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27:30 This week on 51%, we hear the untold story of women resistance fighters in Hitler's ghettos.  We also speak with an author about life in Iraq under Saddam Hussein's regime. Of the legions of stories of World War II and the Holocaust that shape our understanding of those history-changing events, one of the most extraordinary has remained hidden: the daring resistance efforts of Jewish women in the ghettos of the Nazi occupations. In the new book T White Walls: A Memoir about Motherhood, Daughterhood and the Mess in Between.  Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Washing...

   Gina writes, “Huda paced her backyard, trying to brush off her spat with her husband” […] “It was almost midnight when Huda gave up waiting for Abdul Amir to come home and crawl into bed.  Above her head, the blades of the fan pushed warm air around the bedroom.  She lay on her back and catalogued the noise of the night: the buzz of the fluorescent light in the foyer, the gritty wind scraping at the windows, listening for the dull snap of a lock or the tread of heavy boots on her driveway” […] “These days her husband’s black moods were worse than ever.  Earlier that ev...