Clara's War: One Girl's Story of Survival

✍ Scribed by Kramer, Clara

• Book ID: 107339134
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780061864537

✦ Synopsis

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 in a bunker dug out of the Becks' basement. Fifteen-year-old Clara kept a diary during the twenty terrifying months she spent in hiding, writing down details of their unpredictable life — from the house's catching fire to Mr. Beck's affair with...