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Claiming my place : coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust Cover Image Book

Claiming my place : coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust

Price, Planaria J. (author.). West, Helen Reichmann (author.).

Summary: Barbara Reichmann-- once known as Gucia Gomolinska-- was a Jew growing up in predominantly Catholic Poland during the 1920s and '30s. Her world was turned upside down when Nazis invade Poland and established a Jewish ghetto in her town. Gucia's blond hair and fair skin give her an advantage, and she faced a harrowing choice: risk the uncertain horrors of deportation to a concentration camp, or certain death if she is caught resisting. She adopted the gentile name Danuta Barbara Tanska, and left to claim a new life for herself. The final portion of this narrative, written by her daughter Helen, completes Barbara's journey from her immigration to America until her natural, timely death.

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  • ISBN: 9780374305291
  • ISBN: 0374305293
  • Physical Description: print
    xvi, 250 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : maps ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, [2018]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Becoming Basia, 1942 -- First grade, 1922 -- Piotrków Trybunalski, 1922 -- Mama, 1922-1924 -- Fourth grade, 1925-1926 -- Judaism, 1926 -- Zionism, 1928 -- The Gymnasium, 1927-1934 -- Love, 1931-1933 -- The rabbi, 1934-1935 -- The university, 1937 -- Passover, April 1939 -- Wojna!, September 1-25, 1939 -- The ghetto, October 8-November 23, 1939 -- Labor camps, 1940 -- Heniek, May 1941 -- Hendla Libeskind Gomolinska, July-October 1941 -- The beginning of the end, May-August 1942 -- Escape from the ghetto, September 1942 -- Nowy Sacz, September 1942 -- Going home, November 1942 -- Sabina, December 1942 -- Into the Lions' Den, February 1943-July 1944 -- Losing Sabina, July 1944-April 13, 1945 -- Liberation, May 5-June 1, 1945 -- Piotrków, July 1945 -- Hela and Marek, August 1945 -- Munich, September 1945-March 1946 -- Leon, March-April 9,1946 -- Marriage, April 1946-February 1947 -- New lives, February-September 1947 -- Endings, 1947-1951 -- New beginnings, 1951-2007: an afterword by Helen Reichmann West -- What happened to the others.
Target Audience Note:
970L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 6.8 12 199073.
Awards Note:
Junior Library Guild selection.

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Subject:
Reichmann, Barbara -2007
Jews Poland
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Poland
Genre:
Biographies.
Young adult literature.
Young adult literature.

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