A review by growintogardens
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos by Judy Batalion

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

4.5

This was the hardest thing I've ever read. It was heavily researched. While long and hard to get through, it was because of the horror and disturbing content instead of any writing issues. 

I started with the audiobook, as I often do for nonfiction. I had to stop after a while because listening to it was so rough. I definitely recommend this to anyone who'd like to know more about WWII, and/or women during wartime, as long as you can handle the grief and the violence.  

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Deportation, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Violence, Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, Antisemitism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, War, Xenophobia, Child death, Sexual harassment, Torture, Medical content, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Abandonment and Abortion

Minor: Pregnancy

Sex and rape warnings include beastiality. Graphic depictions of child death, torture, war/fighting, suicide, etc. It's a hard read.