Beyond These Walls: Escaping the Warsaw Ghetto - A Young Girl's Story
This affecting personal account of life in and out of the Warsaw Ghetto stirringly describes the experiences and emotions of a well-to-do, unreligious, non-Yiddish-speaking teenager who suffered the horrors of being Jewish in a land controlled by the Nazis. Based on her diaries from the war years, the book depicts Bauman's growing self-awareness as she fought for survival. The diaries chronicle her relationships with family and friends, first feelings of love, escape from the ghetto and from Warsaw itself. Non-Jewish Poles, at risk to their own lives, hid her, her mother and sister in cupboards, closets, forests and on farms: though her father and uncle were killed by the Russians, she survived, despite contracting tuberculosis. The book closes with Bauman's reactions to the end of the war.Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.