The Girl in the Green Sweater, Krystyna Chiger
The Girl in the Green Sweater, Krystyna Chiger
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The Girl in the Green Sweater
A Life in Holocaust’s Shadow

Author: Krystyna Chiger, Daniel Paisner

Narrator: Romy Nordlinger

Unabridged: 9 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/27/2020


Synopsis

The 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, 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.

About Krystyna Chiger

Krystyna Chiger survived the Holocaust by hiding with her family in the sewers of Lvov, Poland, for fourteen months. A retired dentist, she lives on Long Island.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Liv

If this book was a work of fiction, I would critique it by saying I enjoyed the author's journalistic style but the story was too far-fetched to ever really happen. I guess this is what many say or think when reflecting on the Holocaust, and with good reason. This is, indeed, a remarkable tale about......more