The Girl in the Green Sweater - A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

I've read many Holocaust survivor stories but the ones written from a child's point of view are most interesting to me. Events that are devastating to an adult are perceived so differently by children. One thing children pick up on is tension and this book portrays that aspect realistically. I read it in one sitting. Great book and I'm grateful to the author for sharing her experience.

I really enjoyed this book, and once I started reading, I couldn't put it down, as it was so captivating! To live underground in sewers and almost dieing from being flooded out, if it rained, I couldn't fathom living like " rats".This makes you see what lengths that oppressed People will go to, to keep their Heritage alive!

My daughter recommended this book, and told me how compelling it was. I found it even more so, as the depth and breadth of
this child's resilience is astounding. Each incidence in the book builds on another, and one is left with overwhelming amazement at a family's love and ability to survive the most unimaginable.

Told from the viewpoint of a young girl who, with her immediate family, endured incredible hardships and terror, but survived,this is powerful and inspirational.

For people living a safe, comfortable existence, this testimony to the power of the human spirit should spur us to assist others in need in our community and world.

Very touching account of the ordeals of this Holocaust survivor. I cried throughout the book and was so relieved that it had a happy ending for some of those who had to endure the horrible conditions with which they had to survive.

This is definitely a "must" read!!

Loved the book - new insight on how much people can endure and still survive the terror of that time. Children can manage to endure anything as long as they know they have the love & support of their parents.

This movie replaced Clint Eastwood's, "Unforgiven" as my favorite western of all time. The Coen Brothers adaptation of the original, starring John Wayne is far more realistic to the life in the 1800's. Jeff Bridges is at his best as the alcoholic sheriff hired by a 14 year old, played by Hailee Stienfeld as they ride through dangerous territory in search of a gang led by Josh Borden.

The following is the Publisher's Weekly review:
In thus puissant memoir, Holocaust survivor Chiger and co-author Paisner detail Chiger's early years, largely spent hiding from Nazi and Ukrainian persecution. Told from a precocious child's point of view, Chiger chronicles long, dark hours spent in silence with her younger brother, Pawel, in makeshift bunkers and behind false walls while their parents worked menial jobs for meager rations. Chiger's seven-year-old cypher possesses a self-awareness that springs from her inner and outer turmoil, capturing well the despair and terror of a life in hiding. After the Chigers are forced into the underground sewer system, with a collection of strangers, by the Lvov ghetto liquidation in May 1943, the family spends fourteen months in the most unsanitary conditions imaginable, sharing quarters with rats and human waste. Amid the sick and starving, young Chiger clings to hope through make believe games, trust in her parents, and the Catholic sewer worker who provides their only access to the outside world. With a powerful story and a keen voice, Chiger's Holocaust survivor's tale is a worthy and memorable addition to the canon.

This book is about how Jews were treated during the Holocaust in Poland, and how most were killed, but a few escaped in different ways. This story was about a young girl and her family who originally owned a business and worked hard and lived nicely, were grouped and moved with many other Jews into terrible places and saw many neighbours killed, and so they finally escaped into sewers and lived there for over a year with the help of Catholic sewer workers. An amazing read!