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.Β 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.Β Originally published as The Girl in the Green Sweater, In DarknessΒ is Chiger's harrowing first-person account of the fourteen months she spent with her family in the fetid, underground sewers of Lvov.In DarknessΒ 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,Β In DarknessΒ is ultimately a tale of intimate survival, friendship, and redemption.
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