Full name: The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

Author: Krystyna Chiger Year: 2008 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History, Memoirs, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780312376567 9781250018984 0312376561 1250018986

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.   Similar books: Dry Tears by Nechama Tec In My Hands by Irene Gut Opdyke The Pages In Between by Erin Einhorn The Lost Childhood by Yehuda Nir Clara's War by Clara Kramer Alicia by Alicia Appleman-Jurman All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein I Shall Live by Henry Orenstein I Remember Nothing More by Adina Blady Szwajger The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson The Seamstress by Sara Tuvel Bernstein I Am a Star by Inge Auerbacher My Bridges of Hope by Livia Bitton-Jackson Elly: My True Story of the Holocaust by Elly Gross Fragments of Isabella by Isabella Leitner American Sniper by Chris Kyle No Easy Day by Mark Owen The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman Auschwitz by Miklos Nyiszli The Forgotten Highlander by Alistair Urquhart