True story from the major motion picture “In Darkness,” official 2012 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.In 1943, with Lvov’s 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into ghettos and facing extermination, a group of Polish Jews daringly sought refuge in the city’s sewer system. The last surviving member this group, Krystyna Chiger, shares one of the most intimate, … intimate, harrowing and ultimately triumphant tales of survival to emerge from the Holocaust. The Girl in the Green Sweater is Chiger’s harrowing first-person account of the fourteen months she spent with her family in the fetid, underground sewers of Lvov.
The Girl in the Green Sweater is also the story of Leopold Socha, the group’s unlikely savior. A Polish Catholic and former thief, Socha risked his life to help Chiger’s underground family survive, bringing them food, medicine, and supplies. A moving memoir of a desperate escape and life under unimaginable circumstances, The Girl in the Green Sweater is ultimately a tale of intimate survival, friendship, and redemption.
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A very moving story of a Jewish family and the kindness of strangers who became like family.
This book showed the strength of a person’s will to live. I learned of the atrocities of the Nazi occupation in school and have read other books about it. This book just made it all seem so much more real to me. Perhaps because of Covid-19 and staying home more and not socializing it hit me harder. We have nothing to complain about when we realize what some people had to endure just to survive. Anyone feeling sorry for themselves should read this book.
I was thoroughly engaged in reading this novel. Even though I got very busy and had to put it down several times, I never wanted to give up on reading it all the way through. Even more impressively, I never forgot where I was. Honestly, as much teachers love the Diary of Anne Frank, I found this work to be much more approachable, engaging, and powerful. But that just one English major’s opinion.
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Excellent memoir and one that has stayed with me for weeks. Fascinating tale of Holocause survival
This is a true story of guts, determination, love and compassion told through the memories of an older woman of her 7 year old self. The parents in this story were nothing short of amazing. Given the subject matter it’s a surprisingly fast and easy read. If I had a teenager at home I’d hand them this book and say “count your blessings.”
How sad. How could people live that way. A very eye opening view into the persecution of the Jews.
This is the first book on the subject of Holocaust survival of people who survived by living underground in sewers. What a dangerous time in world history and this is a story worthy of being told.
Never knew many Jews survived by this method. Dark material and advise if Anything related to suffering during the Holocaust disturbs you book may not be for you
Unbelievable true story during terrible time in world history.
A WWII book like no other I have read.
A compelling story of survival, community, and resilience.
Great recolection of what people had to do to survive the filthy krauts.
Certainly increased my awareness of what the Jews went through during WW2. So tragic. Even though it is told through the eyes of a 7 year old, she corroborates
her memories with her father’s journals. I recently watched the movie, but it added characters and things not in the book. I think this story is even better than Anne Frank’s.
True and Heartbreaking story which I’ll never forgot.
I felt the author was sitting with me and telling her story. Throughout I kept wondering how I would be under the same circumstances. Thrown out of my home, losing family and friends and living in a sewer for over 14 months. My heart goes out to her and her family.
Amazing survival!
I read this book while staying at home during the Coronavirus period. Where my situation was annoying, the author’s was unimaginably desperate and frightening. The story is inspiring and a good example of what a positive attitude can do.
Couldn’t get into it that well
Captivating and so unbelievably moving, to think of the horrors that people went through to just survive.
Unbelievable true story. So sad to know it happened.
I was impressed with the calm way they lived through horrible times. I can’t imagine the fear and sorrow they would have felt not only going through this treatment themselves, but to have to watch their small children endure it would have been agonizing. Sobering read.