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Book

Such good girls : the journey of the Holocaust's hidden child survivors

Call Number

  • 940.5318 R8132 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Harper, [2014]

Physical Description

257 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

"The real-life puzzle of what happened to the generation of Jewish children who survived the Holocaust in hiding, Edgar Award-winning mystery novelist R. D. Rosen tells this silent, forgotten generation's story through the lives of three girls hidden in three different countries--among the less than 10 percent of Jewish children in Europe to survive World War II--who went on to lead remarkable lives in New York City"--

Contents

  • Why is this seder different from all other seders?
  • The children. Sophie ; Flora ; Carla
  • The gathering. Still hiding ; Sophie's choices ; My name may have been Miriam ; The hierarchy of suffering
  • The ghetto inside. The minefield of memory ; Am I a Christian or a Jew? ; The next circle of hell ; Keepers of the flame ; My name is refugee.

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