Helpful Score: 3
This book is wonderfully heartbreaking and uplifting. Told from a child's perspective, this memoir recounts a young girl, Krystyna Chiger, and her family, living through the Holocaust as Jews. What surprised me the most about this book was the fact that this book moves quickly and is not sedentary despite the fact that there is very little dialogue! Normally when you see page after page of prose you start to flip the pages looking for 'action'. Not the case with this book.
Chiger and her family move from hiding place to hiding place to escape being exterminated by the Nazis. Their final hiding place is in the sewer under their town. They hid there for 15 months. This is their harrowing story.
If you have any interest in the Holocaust you must read this book!
Chiger and her family move from hiding place to hiding place to escape being exterminated by the Nazis. Their final hiding place is in the sewer under their town. They hid there for 15 months. This is their harrowing story.
If you have any interest in the Holocaust you must read this book!
Helpful Score: 2
This book was absolutly fantastic. It tells of the story of this families struggle with communist Russia and then the invasion of the German Nazi's in Poland.
The unbelievably cruel acts of the Germans and the SS black guards will break you heart.
She vividly recalls her possesions going to the germans, the lack of food, the hiding places her ingenius father made and the long hours of boredom and fear the family had to face.
When they are finally hunted down like rabbits they escape to the sewers of Lvov.
Dank, terrible and dark, they live in these sewers for over a year, aided by a kind benefactor, a catholic sewer worker.
This is a amazing tale of truth, fear and courage in the face of inbeatable odds.
The unbelievably cruel acts of the Germans and the SS black guards will break you heart.
She vividly recalls her possesions going to the germans, the lack of food, the hiding places her ingenius father made and the long hours of boredom and fear the family had to face.
When they are finally hunted down like rabbits they escape to the sewers of Lvov.
Dank, terrible and dark, they live in these sewers for over a year, aided by a kind benefactor, a catholic sewer worker.
This is a amazing tale of truth, fear and courage in the face of inbeatable odds.
Helpful Score: 2
What an amazing book! This is an account of a child's story of her family's survival in the sewers of Lvov for 15 months with the help of a ex-con Catholic sewer worker and his two friends help. This family not only endured cruelty from the German, but also prejudice from other Polish people, and Russian communism. This book is a fast read, and will continue to stay with you after you finish the last page.
