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

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ISBN-10: 1250018986

ISBN-13: 9781250018984

Edition: 2008

Authors: Krystyna Chiger, Daniel Paisner

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Basis for the acclaimed film "In Darkness," official 2012 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. 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. Originally published asThe Girl in the Green Sweater, In Darkness is Chiger's harrowing first-person account of the fourteen months she spent with her family in the fetid, underground sewers of Lvov.In Darkness is also the story…    
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Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 2/28/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.20" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

KRYSTYNA CHIGERnbsp;survived the Holocaust by hiding with her family in the sewers of Lvov, Poland for 14 months. A retired dentist, she lives in Long Island.nbsp; DANIEL PAISNER has collaborated on many books, including thenbsp;New York TimesbestsellingLast Man Down: A Firefighter's Story of Survival and Escape from the World Trade Center.

Writer and educator Daniel Paisner received a B.A. from Tufts University and an M.A. from Boston University. He is an adjunct professor of journalism in the communication arts department of Long Island University. Paisner is the author of Horizontal Hold: The Making and Breaking of a Network Pilot and has collaborated on works with the likes of George Pataki, Montel Williams, and model Emme.