Girl
Subtitle: my childhood and the Second World War
By: Alona Frankel ; translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780253022288; 9780253022356; 9780253022417
Subjects: Jews; Holocaust; Jewish children in the Holocaust; Personal Memoirs; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst00958866; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Personal narratives; Biography; HISTORY
Work titles: Yaldah
Description: 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 as proof that Alona was still alive. In time, the money ran out and Alona was tossed into her parents' hiding place, at this point barely recognizing them. After Poland's liberation, Alona's mother was admitted to a terminal hospital and Alona handed over to a wealthy, arrogant family of Jewish survivors who eventually cast her off to an orphanage. Despite these daily horrors and dangers surrounding her, Alona's imagination could not be restrained. A powerful testament to the resilience of the human spirit, Girlis the story of a young girl's self-preservation through a horrible war and its aftermath. Faithful to the perspective of the heroine herself, Frankel, now a world renowned children's author and illustrator, reveals a little girl full of life in a terrible, evil world.
Notes: Copy 2 of this work is signed by the author.

Translated from the Hebrew.