Shadows of Survival : : A Child’s Memoir of the Warsaw Ghetto / / Kristine Rosenthal Keese.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Keese, Kristine Rosenthal,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Jews of Poland
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)

After sixty years, Kristine Keese is finally able to share the memories of her years spent in the Warsaw Ghetto as a small child. She owes her survival, and that of her young uncle, to the striking resourcefulness of her mother. The story emerges as vividly as if it happened yesterday, full of details that only a child would notice. Although the the events of the Warsaw Ghetto and the fate of its victims has been described many times, Keese's story is exceptional, as it is told through the eyes of, not a victim, but a child engaged with her daily reality focused on survival.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. My Personal War -- 2. 1939: The Clouds of War -- 3. November 1940– July 1942: The Ghetto, First Stages -- 4. The Ghetto, Last Stages -- 5. The End of Safety -- 6. Jasio’s Story and Leaving the Ghetto -- 7. Times of High Anxiety -- 8. August–October 1944: The Warsaw Uprising -- 9. Leaving Warsaw -- 10. Waiting for the War to End -- 11. Spring 1945: Return to the Convent -- 12. Living with Genia in Lodz -- Afterword: What is Left??? -- Photos and Documents