A detailed, invaluable first-hand narrative of Holocaust survival in Poland. With help from her daughter Yvona, Dana Fast tells the story of her incredible childhood experiences-life among the horrors of the Warsaw ghetto, studying at a forbidden secret school there, escape to relatives, in hiding passing as a Catholic girl in the countryside, under a new identity at a Catholic orphanage, then living, now under suspicion from regular Poles, with a woman relative claiming German ethnic status and the accompanying privileges. Through this series of name and identity shifts, Dana Fast emerges, a strong, feisty, fearless adolescent girl.A precious and important book.
Susan Lynn Meyer, Sidney Taylor Honor Award-winning author of BLACK RADISHES and SKATING WITH THE STATUE OF LIBERTY.
A detailed, invaluable first-hand narrative of Holocaust survival in Poland. With help from her daughter Yvona, Dana Fast tells the story of her incredible childhood experiences-life among the horrors of the Warsaw ghetto, studying at a forbidden secret school there, escape to relatives, in hiding passing as a Catholic girl in the countryside, under a new identity at a Catholic orphanage, then living, now under suspicion from regular Poles, with a woman relative claiming German ethnic status and the accompanying privileges. Through this series of name and identity shifts, Dana Fast emerges, a strong, feisty, fearless adolescent girl.A precious and important book.
Susan Lynn Meyer, Sidney Taylor Honor Award-winning author of BLACK RADISHES and SKATING WITH THE STATUE OF LIBERTY.
Good in the Midst of Evil
194
Good in the Midst of Evil
194Paperback
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798349377105 |
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| Publisher: | Rise, an Imprint of Clear Fork Press |
| Publication date: | 06/01/2025 |
| Pages: | 194 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.53(d) |