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Claiming My Place: Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Holocaust
By PRICE, Planaria
- ISBN
- 9780374305291
- Publisher
- Farrar
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School Library Journal
Starred Review on April 1, 2018 | Middle To High School
Gr 7 Up—During her childhood in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland, Gucia Gomolinska had access to a good education, and she actively participated in a Zionist youth group. All of that changed in 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. After losing her mother to typhoid and seeing many family members, friends, and neighbors murdered by German soldiers, Gomolinska realized that her survival depended upon hiding her identity. Under the name Danuta Barbara Tanska, Basia fo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on March 1, 2019
Price (assisted by her subject's daughter, West) recounts the life of Holocaust survivor Barbara Reichmann. Born Sura Gitla Gomolinska in 1916 Poland, Reichma...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
