The Girl in the Green Sweater · A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

The Girl in the Green Sweater · A Life in Holocaust's Shadow
Authors
Chiger, Krystyna & Paisner, Daniel
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Tags
history , biography , war
ISBN
9780312376567
Date
2008-09-30T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.21 MB
Lang
en
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In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into ghettos and facing extermination, a group of Polish Jews daringly sought refuge in the city's sewer system. The last surviving member this group, Krystyna Chiger, shares one of the most intimate, harrowing and ultimately triumphant tales of survival to emerge from the Holocaust. *The Girl in the Green Sweater* is Chiger's harrowing first-person account of the fourteen months she spent with her family in the fetid, underground sewers of Lvov.

*The Girl in the Green Sweater* is also the story of Leopold Socha, the group's unlikely savior. A Polish Catholic and former thief, Socha risked his life to help Chiger's underground family survive, bringing them food, medicine, and supplies. A moving memoir of a desperate escape and life under unimaginable circumstances, *The Girl in the Green Sweater* is ultimately a tale of intimate survival, friendship, and redemption.

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