The Girl in the Green Sweater by Krystyna Chiger and Daniel Paisner is the true story of a girl and her family who lived for 14 months hiding from the Nazis in an underground sewer in Lvov, Ukraine. She tells of the techniques she used to hide herself and her brother when Nazis stormed through their house, how her father taught her how to read and write in the sewers, and how Leopold Socha, a Polish Catholic, brought them the necessities. I thought it was interesting that the actual sweater is an exhibit at the Holocaust Memorial Museum.
This sounds like a really interesting book, really neat with the connection to the Holocaust Memorial Museum. I wonder if there are any memoirs of people who helped hide the Jews (like Leopold Socha in this book), that might be an interesting perspective to explore as well.
ReplyDeleteI think it is interesting that the sweater is on exhibit. I think this is a great find! It crazy to think how many people risked their lives to hide and feed the persecuted. What difficult times in our world's history.
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ReplyDeleteWow, awesome book... I just got the chills reading the preview! It is very interesting the sweater is on exhibit... What a great way to introduce and grab children's attention with that information!