Clara's War One Girl's Story of Survival

Name: Clara's War One Girl's Story of Survival
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ISBN: 9780061775079

ISBN-10: 006177507X

ISBN-13: 9780061775079

Edition: Large Type

Authors: Clara Kramer, Stephen Glantz

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This heart-stopping story of a young girl hiding from the Nazis is based on Clara Kramer's diary of her years surviving in an underground bunker with seventeen other people.Clara Kramer was a typical Polish-Jewish teenager from a small town at the outbreak of the Second World War. When the Germans invaded, Clara's family was taken in by the Becks, a Volksdeutsche (ethnically German) family from their town. Mrs. Beck worked as Clara's family's housekeeper. Mr. Beck was known to be an alcoholic, a womanizer, and a vocal anti-Semite. But on hearing that Jewish families were being led into the woods and shot, Beck sheltered the Kramers and two other Jewish families.Eighteen people in all lived…

Book details

List price: $25.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 492
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



A Note to the Reader


Prologue



My Grandfather



A Place to Hide



The Housekeeper



A Gift from Mr Beck



I Go to the Ghetto



The Final Solution



The Arrival



18 April



The Love Affair



Days of Awe and Atonement



A Year Underground



Valentine's Day



The SS Move In



We Are Just Starting to Suffer



I'm Losing Hope



The Exodus



Zolkiew without Mania



The Diary


Epilogue: Life Goes On


Acknowledgments