NASHUA – A noted author who has worked at different times as a university lecturer, stand-up comic, a “talking head” for TV, radio and podcasts and a Yiddish street performer has been selected the guest speaker at this year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, an annual collaborative observance hosted by Rivier University and Temple Beth Abraham.

Judy Batalion’s latest book, “The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos,” tells the story of Jewish women who risked their lives as couriers, smuggling weapons between locked ghettos, assassinating Nazis, forging documents, and rescuing Jews.

The evening’s program begins at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 18, in the Dion Center, on the campus of Rivier University.

The public is welcome to attend the event, which is free, thanks to support from New Hampshire Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

A question-and-answer period will follow Batalion’s presentation, after which a candle-lighting ceremony memorializing Holocaust victims will be held.

Temple Beth Abraham’s Zimria Choir will perform with the Nashua Community Interfaith Choir at the event.

In “The Light of Days,” Batalion describes many of the women resistance fighters as still in their teens when they joined organized youth movements that promoted collectivism, socialism, intelluctualism and peace. When World War II broke out, these movements were transformed into underground militias in the ghettos.

Batalion, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, has also authored “White Walls: A Memoir About Moehterhood, Daughterhood, and the Mess In Between.”

Dean Shalhoup may be reached at 594-1256 or dshalhoup@nashuatelegraph.com.