Bibliograph

Claiming my place, coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust, Planaria Price ; with Helen Reichmann West

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Claiming my place, coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust, Planaria Price ; with Helen Reichmann West

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

portraitsphotographsillustrationsplates

Index

no index present

Intended audience

970L, Lexile

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Claiming my place

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Planaria Price ; with Helen Reichmann West

Sub title

coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust

Summary

Meet Barbara Reichmann, once known as Gucia Gomolinska: smart, determined, independent, and steadfast in the face of injustice. A Jew growing up in predominantly Catholic Poland during the 1920s and ’30s, her world is turned upside down when Nazis invade Poland and establish the first Jewish ghetto of World War II in her town. As the war escalates, Gucia and her family, friends, and neighbors suffer starvation, disease, and worse. She knows her blond hair and fair skin give her an advantage, and she decides to hide her identity as a Jew and adopts the gentile name Danuta Barbara Tanska. Writing in the first person, author Planaria Price and Helen Reichmann West, Barbara's daughter, bring the immediacy of Barbara’s voice to this true account of determination and a defiant spirit --Adapted from publisher description

Target audience

juvenile

resource.variantTitle

Coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust

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