Claiming my place : coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust / Planaria Price ; with Helen Reichmann West.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York, NY : Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First editionDescription: xvi, 250 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : maps ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780374305291
- 0374305293
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Biography | Reichman B. P946 | Available | 33111008880284 | ||||
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Gucia Gomolinska grew up comfortably in Piotrkow, Poland, a devoted student, sister, daughter, and friend. Still, even in the years before World War II, she faced discrimination as a Jew--but with her ash-blond hair she was often able to pass as just another Pole. When her town was invaded by Nazis, she knew her Aryan coloring gave her an advantage, and she faced an awful choice: stay in the place she had always called home, or leave behind everything she knew to try to survive. She took on a new identity as Basia Tanska, and her journey led her directly into Nazi Germany. Planaria Price, along with Basia's daughter Helen West, tells this incredible life story directly in the first person. Claiming My Place is a stunning portrayal of bravery, love, loss, and the power of storytelling.
The true story of a young Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust by escaping to Nazi Germany and hiding in plain sight.