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Description edit
This heart-stopping story of a young girl hiding from the Nazis is based on Clara Kramer's diary of her years surviving in an underground bunker with seventeen other people. Clara Kramer was a typical Polish-Jewish teenager from a small town at the outbreak of the Second World War. When... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
People edit
- Clara Schwartz: a.k.a. Clarutchka. The writer of the diary and later this memoir, a young Jewish girl in Poland
- Uchka Orlander: Clara's favorite aunt, Hersch Leib's wife, mother of Zygush and Zosia.
- Hersch Leib Orlander: A furrier, Clara's uncle, Uchka's husband, father of Zygush and Zosia.
- Zygush Orlander: Uchka's three-year-old son. Clara's cousin.
- Zosia Orlander: Uchka's baby daughter. Clara's cousin.
- Leah 'Babcia' Reizfeld: Clara's grandmother on her mother's side, wife of Dzadzio.
- Shimon 'Dzadzio' Reizfeld: Clara's grandfather on her mother's side.
- Mama / Salka Schwartz: a.k.a. "Salka the Cossack." Clara's mother.
- Papa / Meir Schwartz: Clara's father.
- Mania Schwarz: Clara's little sister, restless, lovely and adventurous with a brilliant singing voice.
- Rosa Reizfeld: Clara's aunt, the prettiest of her mother's sisters, wife of Pinchas Karp
- Pinchas Karp: a timber merchant, he is Aunt Rosa's husband, Clara's uncle.
- Giza Reizfeld: a.k.a. Gizela. Clara's aunt, her mother's second youngest sister. Married to Salo Honig, then to Meyer Levin.
- Josek Reizfeld: Clara's uncle, husband of Rela.
- Rela Schrenkenhammer: Clara's aunt by marriage, wife of Josek
- Manek Reizfeld: Clara's uncle.
- Julia Beck: Add a description of this character.
- Dupak
- Klara
- Mr Patrontasch
- Lola
- Mrs Melman
- Artek
- Von Pappen
- Norbert
- Dudio
- Hans
- Clarutchka
- Krueger
- Mrs Steckel
- Richard
- Adolph
- Dr Lucynski
- Hermann
- Igo
- Sol
- Meyer
- Nina
- Gedalo
- Hitler
- Tilzer
- Tarnopol
- Georg
- Sobieski
- Volksdeutscher
Setting & Locations edit
- Zolkiew: Polish city, Clara's hometown.
- Lvov: a.k.a. Lviv, Ukrainian city.
- Josefow: the city in which Clara's Aunt Giza and Uncle Pinchas live.
- Zhitomir: a.k.a. Zhytomyr, the city over which the Russians and Nazi Germany dispute constantly, a back-and-forth the families in hiding follow closely to see if their misery will be over soon.
- Ala
- Poland
- Klarunia
- Germany
- Gestapo
- Siberia
- Steckels
- Israel
- Warsaw
- Galicia
- Krakow
- Palestine
- Luncia
- London
- Vienna
- Europe
- Belzec
- England
- Stalingrad
- Janowska
- Russia
- France
- Paris
- Romania
First Sentence edit
For those of us not sent to Siberia, the Russians had brought Siberia to us.
Table of Contents edit
1. My Grandfather
2. A Place to Hide
3. The Housekeeper
4. A Gift From Mr Beck
5. I Go to the Ghetto
6. The Final Solution
7. The Arrival
8. 18 April
9. The Love Affair
10. Days of Awe and Atonement
11. A Year Underground
12. Valentine's Day
13. The SS Move In
14. We Are Just Starting to Suffer
15. I'm Losing Hope
16. The Exodus
17. Zolkiew Without Mania
18. The Diary
Epilogue: Life Goes On
Errata edit
p. ix - "akcja" is misspelled as "akjca"
p. 41 - "there were are" should be "there are"
Authors & Contributors edit
- Clara Kramer (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 940.5318092
Subjects edit
- Books › History › World › Jewish › Holocaust
- Books › History › Europe › Poland
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Ethnic & National › Jewish
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Historical › Holocaust
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Memoirs
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