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Title: The Girl in the Red Coat: A Memoir by Roma Ligocka, Iris Von Fickenstein, Margot Bettauer Dembo, Iris Finckenstein ISBN: 0-312-28794-1 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 18 September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: She provides testimony
Comment: While I still don't know why some people survived the Holocaust and others didn't, I do know why Roma Ligocka survived: she provides testimony.
Her story begins as a toddler tells her tale of fear in the Krakow Ghetto. Scarcely more than an infant when the Jews were forced to wear Jewish stars on their clothing, she absolutely knew no other way of life. When an aunt said that she'd have men at her feet because of her beauty, she wondered if they'd be dead; that's what she knew.
She watched the snatching of her grandmother before her very eyes, as she hid under a table. Her father was forced to go to Auschwitz. Her mother begged for places for them to stay throughout the war.
The first half of the book deals with Roma's life before the end of the war. The second half deals with her life after the war: how events, seemingly minor, during the war, left permanent scars in her mind.
While this memoir deals with topics such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, failed marriages, show business, prejudice, and addiction, this is not a book ABOUT those topics. This is a book about a woman who saw "Schindler's List" and recognized herself and her family as subjects, and who had the courage to reflect, document, and move on. This is a story of survival.
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Rating: 5
Summary: I read it all in one sitting
Comment: A very moving book. I've read many books about the Holocaust. However, I don't think I previously read one that was written by someone who was so young during the war and that focused so much on the author's adult life. Even though intellectually one knows that war scars a soul forever, living the aftereffects through a single individual's perspective is emotionally stunning. Highly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: GRIPPING AND TOUCHING
Comment: I just wanted to say how moved I was by the book The Girl In The
Red Coat. It is a book that I just didnt want to put down until it was finished. I was so moved by terrible things that Roma Ligocka experienced as a child. Hopefully, the world will never be subject to such tyranny again. I am a Christian, and also have a great love for the Jewish people. Jesus has all the answers.
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Title: The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 by Wadysaw Szpilman, Anthea Bell, Andrzej Szpilman, Wladyslaw Szpilman, Wilm Hosenfeld ISBN: 0312311354 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Andrzej Szczypiorski, Klara Glowczewska ISBN: 0802135021 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Hidden: A Sister and Brother in Nazi Poland by Fay Walker, Leo Rosen, Caren S. Neile ISBN: 0299180603 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Pub. Date: 16 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Five Chimneys by Olga Lengyel ISBN: 0897333764 Publisher: Academy Chicago Pub Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Rena's Promise by Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Rena Kornreich Gelisssen, Heather Dune Macadam ISBN: 0807070718 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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