Claiming my place: coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust

✍ Scribed by Price, Planaria J.;Reichmann, Barbara;West, Helen Reichmann

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 -- Piotrków Trybunalski, 1922 -- Mama, 1922-1924 -- Fourth grade, 1925-1926 -- Judaism, 1926 -- Zionism, 1928 -- The Gymnasium, 1927-1934 -- Love, 1931-1933 -- The rabbi, 1934-1935 -- The university, 1937 -- Passover, April 1939 -- Wojna!, September 1-25, 1939 -- The ghetto, October 8-November 23, 1939 -- Labor camps, 1940 -- Heniek, May 1941 -- Hendla Libeskind Gomolinska, July-October 1941 -- The beginning of the end, May-August 1942 -- Escape from the ghetto, September 1942 -- Nowy Sacz, September 1942 -- Going home, November 1942 -- Sabina, December 1942 -- Into the Lions' Den, February 1943-July 1944 -- Losing Sabina, July 1944-April 13, 1945 -- Liberation, May 5-June 1, 1945 -- Piotrków, July 1945 -- Hela and Marek, August 1945 -- Munich, September 1945-March 1946 -- Leon, March-April 9,1946 -- Marriage, April 1946-February 1947 -- New lives, February-September 1947 -- Endings, 1947-1951 -- New beginnings, 1951-2007: an afterword by Helen Reichmann West -- What happened to the others.;Barbara Reichmann-- once known as Gucia Gomolinska-- was a Jew growing up in predominantly Catholic Poland during the 1920s and '30s. Her world was turned upside down when Nazis invade Poland and established a Jewish ghetto in her town. Gucia's blond hair and fair skin give her an advantage, and she faced a harrowing choice: risk the uncertain horrors of deportation to a concentration camp, or certain death if she is caught resisting. She adopted the gentile name Danuta Barbara Tanska, and left to claim a new life for herself. The final portion of this narrative, written by her daughter Helen, completes Barbara's journey from her immigration to America until her natural, timely death.

✦ Table of Contents

Becoming Basia, 1942 --
First grade, 1922 --
Piotrków Trybunalski, 1922 --
Mama, 1922-1924 --
Fourth grade, 1925-1926 --
Judaism, 1926 --
Zionism, 1928 --
The Gymnasium, 1927-1934 --
Love, 1931-1933 --
The rabbi, 1934-1935 --
The university, 1937 --
Passover, April 1939 --
Wojna!, September 1-25, 1939 --
The ghetto, October 8-November 23, 1939 --
Labor camps, 1940 --
Heniek, May 1941 --
Hendla Libeskind Gomolinska, July-October 1941 --
The beginning of the end, May-August 1942 --
Escape from the ghetto, September 1942 --
Nowy Sacz, September 1942 --
Going home, November 1942 --
Sabina, December 1942 --
Into the Lions' Den, February 1943-July 1944 --
Losing Sabina, July 1944-April 13, 1945 --
Liberation, May 5-June 1, 1945 --
Piotrków, July 1945 --
Hela and Marek, August 1945 --
Munich, September 1945-March 1946 --
Leon, March-April 9,1946 --
Marriage, April 1946-February 1947 --
New lives, February-September 1947 --
Endings, 1947-1951 --
New beginnings, 1951-2007: an afterword by Helen Reichmann West --
What happened to the others.

✦ Subjects

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland;Jews;Jews--Poland;Jews--Poland--Piotrków Trybunalski;JUVENILE NONFICTION--History--Holocaust;Young adult nonfiction;Biographies;Juvenile works;Biography;Reichmann, Barbara, -- -2007 -- Juvenile literature;Jews -- Poland -- Piotrków Trybunalski -- Biography -- Juvenile literature;Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Biography -- Juvenile literature;Reichmann, Barbara, -- -2007;Jews -- Poland;Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland;JUVENILE NONFICTION -