Clara's War - Hardcover

Kramer, Clara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0091924405 ISBN 13: 9780091924409

Publisher: Ebury Press, 2008

Synopsis

On 21 July 1942 the Nazis invaded Poland. In the small town of Zolkiew, life for Jewish 15-year-old Clara Kramer was never to be the same again. While those around her were either slaughtered or transported, Clara and her family hid perilously in a hand-dug cellar. Living above and protecting them were the Becks.

Mr Beck was a womaniser, a drunkard and a self-professed anti-Semite, yet he risked his life throughout the war to keep his charges safe. Nevertheless, life with Mr Beck was far from predictable. From the house catching fire, to Beck's affair with Clara's cousin, to the nightly SS drinking sessions in the room just above, Clara's War transports you into the dark, cramped bunker, and sits you next to the families as they hold their breath time and again.

Sixty years later, Clara Kramer has created a memoir that is lyrical, dramatic and heartbreakingly compelling. Despite the worst of circumstances, this is a story full of hope and survival, courage and love.

About this title

Review:

"superlative memoir of survival...Few wartime memoirs convey with such harrowing immediacy the evil of the Nazi genocide...Her book is a model documentary." (Daily Telegraph)

"compelling" (Literary Review)

Book Description:

A young girl's true story of miraculous survival under the Nazis

About this edition

• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0091924405
• ISBN 13: 9780091924409
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352