Clara's war, one girl's story of survival, Clara Kramer ; with Stephen Glantz
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Clara's war, one girl's story of survival, Clara Kramer ; with Stephen Glantz
Language
eng
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Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Clara's war
Nature of contents
dictionaries
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Clara Kramer ; with Stephen Glantz
Sub title
one girl's story of survival
Summary
In the classic vein of The Diary of Anne Frank-a heart-wrenching and inspiring story of a life lived in fear and cramped quarters-Clara's War is a true story of the Holocaust. Cara Kramer was a typical Polish-Jewish teenager from a small town at the outbreak of the Second World War. When the Germans invaded, Clara's family was taken in by the Becks, a Volksdeutsche (ethnically German) family from their town. Mrs. Beck worked as Clara's family's housekeeper. Mr. Beck was known to be an alcoholic, a womanizer, and a vocal anti-Semite. But on hearing that Jewish families were being led into the woods and shot, Beck sheltered the Kramers and two other Jewish families. Eighteen people in all lived in a bunker dug out of the Becks' basement. Fifteen-year-old Clara kept a diary during the twenty terrifying months she spent in hiding, writing down details of their unpredictable life-from the house's catching fire to Mr. Beck's affair with Clara's neighbor; from the nightly SS drinking sessions in the room above to the small pleasure of a shared Christmas carp. Against all odds, Clara lived to tell her story, and her diary is now part of the permanent col-lection of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C
Target audience
adult
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- Poland -- Biography
- Kramer, Clara, 1927-2018
- Jews + Persecutions -- Poland
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Poland
- Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Biography
- Electronic books
- Żółkiew (Poland) -- Personal narratives
- Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Biography
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Żółkiew -- Personal narratives
- Jews -- Poland -- Żółkiew -- Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 + Jews -- Poland
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- Poland -- Biography
- Kramer, Clara, 1927-2018
- Jews + Persecutions -- Poland
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Poland
- Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Biography
- Electronic books
- Żółkiew (Poland) -- Personal narratives
- Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Biography
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Żółkiew -- Personal narratives
- Jews -- Poland -- Żółkiew -- Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 + Jews -- Poland
- Content1
- Is Derivative Of1