num_pages: 242
description: This is the true story of Nechama Tec, whose family found refuge with Polish Christians during the Holocaust. Dry Tears is a dramatic tale of how an eleven-year-old child learned to "pass" in the forbidding Christian world and a quietly moving coming-of-age story. This book is unique celebration of the best human qualities that surface under the worst conditions.
language: English
title: Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood
titlecomplete: Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood
genres: Autobiography, History, World War II, Religion, Polish Literature, Holocaust, Biography Memoir, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 491
places: Poland
publisher: Oxford University Press