Girl: My Childhood and the Second World War

by Alona Frankel

Book Overview

Alona Frankel was just two years old when Germany invaded Poland. After a Polish carpenter agreed to hide her parents but not her, Alona's parents desperately handed her over to a greedy woman who agreed to hide her only as long as they continued to send money. Isolated from her parents and living among pigs, horses, mice, and lice, Alona taught herself to read and drew on scraps of paper. The woman would send these drawings to Alona's parents...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253022355
• ISBN13: 9780253022356
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"