Behind the Secret Window: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood During World War Two

Toll, Nellie S.

ISBN 10: 0803713622 / ISBN 13: 9780803713628

Published by Dial Books for Young Readers, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1993

About this Item

8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Spine has split between pages 52-53, light bumps and shelf wear. Inscribed by author "to Laura with best wishes," signed and dated "5/95" on flyleaf. Seller Inventory # 029392

Bibliographic Details

Title: Behind the Secret Window: A Memoir of a ...

Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers, New York, New York, U.S.A.

Publication Date: 1993

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

The autobiographical account of an eight-year-old Jewish girl as she hides from the Nazis in a small bedroom in Lwo+a7w, Poland, in 1943 contains twenty-nine examples of her many paintings during that period.

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.