- Summary
- Three young Jewish sisters from Leipzig, Germany huddle together in the cold darkness of night waiting for their smugglers to rescue them and bring them to freedom in Belgium. Their mother, in a state of shock following Kristallnacht, is left behind, sedated in a psychiatric hospital. November 1938 begins the four-year ordeal of the seven member Kroch family who endure unfathomable conditions in their fight for survival: imprisonment in French internment camps, hiding in a tiny tool shed, and adapting to the deplorable conditions of a Nazi prison. The memoirs of Alexandra, age 11, and her sisters, 15-year-old Eva and 14-year-old Judith, interweave as they recount the true story of their escape from the Nazis.
- Variant Title
- True Holocaust story of love, luck, and survival
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Heymann, Eva, 1923-2017, author.
- Published
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2020
©2020
- Locale
- France
Germany
Leipzig
Allemagne
- Other Authors/Editors
- Kashti-Kroch, Judith, author.
Littauer, Alexandra, author.
Clement, Celia, author, editor.
- Notes
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Includes discussion questions.
Includes bibliographical references.
