Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #492946 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 423 pages

Review
"impossible to put down" Caroline Moorhead"

Jasper Rees, The Daily Telegraph
A remarkable book...A gripping memoir of wartime Warsaw

The Sunday Times
Written without self-pity, this is a book to make you marvel at the human capacity to survive unbroken and unembittered

Customer Reviews

Gripping, under-stated story of life in the Warsaw ghetto
The story of her families descent from an affluent middle class life in Poland, to a squalid hand to mouth existence in the Warsaw ghetto, and eventual dispersion. A first hand account of some of the most terrible events of the century. The accumulation of small details of everyday life are very effective in bringing home the terror of the times.

Well written and gripping. I have actually logged on today to buy a copy for my mother. Recommended.

A very moving book to read in this time of luxury and greed.
This book certainly brought me down to earth with a bump. An excellent (true) story of a young girl escaping the holocaust in the WWII.

This is not one of those "I hate Nazis books" in fact I feel that she showed great awe for the first German that she came across. It is more of a 'The war will be over soon and we can return to our middle-class way of life once again'.

You will always hear people today saying, "I would have escaped" or "I would have fought back". After reading this you will appreciate why nobody could escape or fight back.

The awareness that they are slowly becoming trapped in the ghetto that first offered them sanctuary is almost suffocating. If you're content in your protected little world and want to come down to earth a bit then this is the book for you.