My Lvov: Holocaust Memoir of a Twelve-Year-Old Girl

While still twelve years old, Janina Hescheles wrote this harrowing report from her hiding place in Cracow. The notebook, filled with clear childlike writing, was fortunately preserved. She tells about the German occupation of Lvov, the loss of her parents, about the Ghetto and mass murder in the notorious forced-labor camp Janowska in Lvov. Thrown into the abyss of horror, Janina understood and sensed more than could be expected of someone her age.

With the help of the Underground she managed to escape in the autumn 1943 shortly before the liquidation of the camp, and lived in occupied Poland with false papers and identity until the end of the Second World War. Janina, who has been called "the Polish Anne Frank", has given the world a moving and important report that has been presented here in its entirety.


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My Lvov: Holocaust Memoir of a Twelve-Year-Old Girl

While still twelve years old, Janina Hescheles wrote this harrowing report from her hiding place in Cracow. The notebook, filled with clear childlike writing, was fortunately preserved. She tells about the German occupation of Lvov, the loss of her parents, about the Ghetto and mass murder in the notorious forced-labor camp Janowska in Lvov. Thrown into the abyss of horror, Janina understood and sensed more than could be expected of someone her age.

With the help of the Underground she managed to escape in the autumn 1943 shortly before the liquidation of the camp, and lived in occupied Poland with false papers and identity until the end of the Second World War. Janina, who has been called "the Polish Anne Frank", has given the world a moving and important report that has been presented here in its entirety.


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My Lvov: Holocaust Memoir of a Twelve-Year-Old Girl

My Lvov: Holocaust Memoir of a Twelve-Year-Old Girl

by Janina Hescheles
My Lvov: Holocaust Memoir of a Twelve-Year-Old Girl

My Lvov: Holocaust Memoir of a Twelve-Year-Old Girl

by Janina Hescheles

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While still twelve years old, Janina Hescheles wrote this harrowing report from her hiding place in Cracow. The notebook, filled with clear childlike writing, was fortunately preserved. She tells about the German occupation of Lvov, the loss of her parents, about the Ghetto and mass murder in the notorious forced-labor camp Janowska in Lvov. Thrown into the abyss of horror, Janina understood and sensed more than could be expected of someone her age.

With the help of the Underground she managed to escape in the autumn 1943 shortly before the liquidation of the camp, and lived in occupied Poland with false papers and identity until the end of the Second World War. Janina, who has been called "the Polish Anne Frank", has given the world a moving and important report that has been presented here in its entirety.



Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789493056367
Publisher: Amsterdam Publishers
Publication date: 01/27/2020
Series: Holocaust Survivor Memoirs WWII
Pages: 150
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.32(d)

About the Author

Janina Altman (née Hescheles), born 2 January 1931 in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine), is a Polish-Israeli chemist, author and a Holocaust survivor.

Table of Contents

Foreword v

Introduction vii

Chronicle of Lvov xiii

Photos xix

1. Father comes Home 1

2. The Germans enter the City: The First Pogrom 4

3. The Jewish Quarter 14

4. The ‘Great Aktion’ of August 1942 20

5. On the Aryan side 25

6. The Arrest 32

7. Back to the Ghetto 38

8. Separation from Mother 41

9. In the D.A.W. and the Janowski camp 45

10. The Hanging 54

11. Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur in the camp-Flight 63

Epilogue 71

Poems by Janina 1941-1945 81

Acknowledgments 91

Citations from Forewords, Afterwords and Films 97

Notes 109

Kind Review Request 113

Glossary 115

Index 119

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