The true story of a young Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust by escaping to Nazi Germany and hiding in plain sight.;Becoming Basia, 1942 -- First grade, 1922 -- PiotrkΓ³w Trybunalski, 1922 -- Mama, 1922-1924 -- Fourth grade, 1925-1926 -- Judaism, 1926 -- Zionism, 1928 -- The Gymnasium, 1927-1934
Claiming My Place: A True Story of Defiance, Deception, and Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Holocaust
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
- Category
- Fiction
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xvi, 250 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm
Relates how the author was torn from her happy home and sent to Birkenau by the Nazis, describing how she worked long hours and fought for survival before being set free at the end of the war and beginning a new life in America.
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