Clara's War: One Girl's Story of Survival
“A superlative memoir of survival….Few wartime memoirs convey with such harrowing immediacy the evil of the Nazi genocide.”—Daily Telegraph (London) “One Girl’s Story of Survival,” Clara’s War is based on Clara Kramer’s diary of her years spent hiding in an underground bunker with seventeen other...
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“A superlative memoir of survival….Few wartime memoirs convey with such harrowing immediacy the evil of the Nazi genocide.”—Daily Telegraph (London) “One Girl’s Story of Survival,” Clara’s War is based on Clara Kramer’s diary of her years spent hiding in an underground bunker with seventeen other people during the Nazi occupation of Poland. In the classic vein of The Diary of Anne Frank—a heart-wrenching and inspiring story of a life lived in fear and cramped quarters—Clara’s War is a true story of the Holocaust as told by a remarkable young girl who lived to bear witness.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061728617 (0061728616)
ASIN: 61728616
Publish date: April 20th 2010
Publisher: Ecco
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
20th Century,
War,
World War II,
Holocaust,
Poland
A holocaust memoir from a diary kept by a young girl hiding in a bunker for 18 months during the worst of the Nazi invasion of Poland. Most interesting is the snapshot of the community of Zolkiew, Poland, one of the most welcoming communities for Jews in Eastern Europe. How the population of Jews in...
I'm really lost for words after finishing this book.. I actually just want to bawl my eyes out.. Most of us have read Anne Frank's Diary (and if you havent, please run to your local bookstore and pick up a copy.. Seriously..) and I guess this is the same kind of book.. Its about Clara, who suvived t...
A difficult book to read for sure. It gripped me from the beginning and read it straight through in one sitting.
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