Thanks to my Mother - Softcover

Skofield, James; Rabinovici, Schoschana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141305967 ISBN 13: 9780141305967

Publisher: Puffin, 2000

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub the Date: March. 2000 Pages: 256 in Publisher by: Puffin Susie Weksler was only eight in. 1941 the when Hitler's forces invaded her Lithuanian city of Vilnius. A great center for Jewish learning and culture. Soon her family would face hunger and fear in. the Jewish ghetto - but worse was to come. When the ghetto was liquidated. some Jews were selected for forced labor camps; the rest were killed. Susie would live - because of the courage and ingenuity of her mother. It was her mother who carried Susie. hidden in a backpack. to the group destined for the labor camps; who disguised her as an adult in makeup and turban to fool the camp guards; who fed her body and soul through gruesome conditions in three concentration camps and a winter death march ; who showed her the power of the human spirit to endure. After struggling to survive in Nazi-occupied Lithuania. a...

About this title

Product Description:

In a poignant autobiographical account, a child gratefully thanks her mother who, by the use of her wits and courage, managed to keep her alive throughout their long period of imprisonment at the Vilinius ghetto and concentration camps during World War II. Reprint.

Synopsis:

After struggling to survive in Nazi-occupied Lithuania, a young Jewish girl and her mother endure much suffering in Kaiserwald, Stutthof, and Tauentzien concentration camps and on an eleven-day death march before being liberated by the Russian army.

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0141305967
• ISBN 13: 9780141305967
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256