The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781250018984)

True story from the major motion picture "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 as The 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 of Leopold Socha, the group's unlikely savior. A Polish Catholic and former thief, Socha risked his life to help Chiger's underground family survive, bringing them food, medicine, and supplies. A moving memoir of a desperate escape and life under unimaginable circumstances, In Darkness is ultimately a tale of intimate survival, friendship, and redemption.

Author: Krystyna Chiger, Daniel Paisner
ISBN-10: 1250018986
ISBN-13: 9781250018984
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2012
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.90d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.8
Point Value: 15
Interest Level: Upper Grade
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