St. Martin's Press
March 2012
On Sale: February 28, 2012
304 pages ISBN: 1250018986 EAN: 9781250018984 Kindle: B003H4I4S6 Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
Basis for the acclaimed film "In Darkness," official 2012
Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. In
1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed,
or forced into ghettos and facing extermination, a group of
Polish Jews daringly sought refuge in the city's sewer
system. The last surviving member this group, Krystyna
Chiger, shares one of the most intimate, harrowing and
ultimately triumphant tales of survival to emerge from the
Holocaust. Originally published as The Girl in the Green
Sweater, In Darkness is Chiger's harrowing first-person
account of the fourteen months she spent with her family in
the fetid, underground sewers of Lvov.In Darkness is also
the story of Leopold Socha, the group's unlikely savior. A
Polish Catholic and former thief, Socha risked his life to
help Chiger's underground family survive, bringing them
food, medicine, and supplies. A moving memoir of a
desperate escape and life under unimaginable
circumstances, In Darkness is ultimately a tale of intimate
survival, friendship, and redemption.
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