Behind the Secret Window

Toll, Nelly S.

ISBN 10: 0142302414 / ISBN 13: 9780142302415

Published by Puffin Books, 2003

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Synopsis:

The author recalls her experiences as a young girl when she and her mother were hidden from the Nazis for more than a year by a Gentile couple in Poland during World War II. Reprint.

About the Author: Dr. Nelly S. Toll came to America in 1951. She holds a master's degree in art and art history and education from Rutgers University, has studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She has exhibited her adult work widely and has taught both art and art history. Dr. Toll also holds a master's degree in counseling from Glassboro College and a degree in art therapy from Hahnemann University; she has combined both fields as a counselor working with young people. 
    Her sixty-four watercolor paintings from the thirteen months she spent in hiding in Poland during World War II have been shown around the world. Eight ar in the permanent collection of the Yad Vashem Museum in Israel.
    She is also the co-author of a play based on her wartime experiences and the author of Without Surrender: Art of the Holocaust. 

Bibliographic Details

Title: Behind the Secret Window
Publisher: Puffin Books
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good