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The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow Kindle Edition
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In this puissant memoir, Holocaust survivor Chiger and co-author Paisner detail Chiger's early years, largely spent hiding from Nazi and Ukrainian persecution. Told from a precocious child's point of view, Chiger chronicles long, dark hours spent in silence with her younger brother, Pawel, in makeshift bunkers and behind false walls while their parents worked menial jobs for meager rations. Chiger's seven-year-old cypher possesses a self-awareness that springs from her inner and outer turmoil, capturing well the despair and terror of a life in hiding. After the Chigers are forced into the underground sewer system, with a collection of strangers, by the Lvov ghetto liquidation in May 1943, the family spends fourteen months in the most unsanitary conditions imaginable, sharing quarters with rats and human waste. Amid the sick and starving, young Chiger clings to hope through make believe games, trust in her parents, and the Catholic sewer worker who provides their only access to the outside world. With a powerful story and a keen voice, Chiger's Holocaust survivor's tale is a worthy and memorable addition to the canon. Photos. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
“I might have been only a child,” Chiger writes, “but what I saw, what I heard, what I experienced, has been reconsidered many times, and it is the accumulation of memories that now survive.” In 1943, the 150,000 Jews of Lvov, Poland, were sent into ghettos. Chiger, along with her parents and brother, hid in the sewers of Lvov for 14 months. Leopold Socha, a Polish Catholic, agreed to look after the family and brought them food and supplies. They sought sanctuary among the rats, the worms, the spiders, the filth, and were plagued by diarrhea, nausea, and disorientation. Chiger writes that sometimes it was the Germans who came looking for them and sometimes it was the Ukrainians, “who in many ways were worse.” The family survived and moved from Lvov to Krakow and then to Israel. The memoir, with a 16-page black-and-white photo insert, is a gripping account of survival and friendship. --George Cohen --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
Adult/High School—Four-year-old Chiger thought of herself as a princess in her family's grand home in Lvov, Poland, in 1939. But things quickly changed as the Germans took all their belongings, their business, and their house, and moved them into one room in the ghetto. Finally, survival meant hiding for 14 months in the dark, slimy, airless sewers under the city. Leopold Socha, a sewer inspector, brought the family and 17 other people food, supplies, and news of the outside world, saving them and, he hoped, his soul as well. Although the survivors paid him, he continued to help them long after their money had run out. To keep warm, Chiger wore a green sweater knitted lovingly for her by her grandmother. The garment is now on display in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, along with her appalling story. The author writes with a compelling style that imparts the horrors of the sewer, the cruelty of the Gestapo, and the Russian "liberation." From her grand home to the sewers of Lvov, Chiger's exceptional story of a small Jewish girl stands out among the many Holocaust survival narratives as one that will touch the hearts of teens and adults alike and bring home the horrors of this very dark period in history. Use it to personalize the study of the Holocaust in world history, social justice, or psychology class.— Ellen Bell, Amador Valley High School, Pleasanton, CA Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
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"The Girl in the Green Sweater" is a very important book about the Holocaust, as it presents an accurate picture of how the genocide was perpetrated and how one family managed to survive. However, the book has to be read between the lines in order to understand it fully. I doubt that without proper commentaries the public will gain this understanding. This is confirmed by the book's reviews so far - they all miss the "big picture". For this reason and after some trepidation (it is after all a book about the Holocaust by a survivor), I give this book three stars. The Holocaust was one the biggest transfers of wealth in history. Today, it is associated with death camps, gas cameras, and crematories. In reality, vast majority of the victims did not die in death camps. In Eastern Europe Jews were not transported to special facilities, they were usually escorted to a nearby forest or a ditch and shot there. This process was very personal as victims faced their tormentors and executioners. This face-to-face interaction allowed for bribery. If the victim had something portable of value, there was a chance that the murderer would let them live. The same was true for bribing the local population - for food and shelter or for simply being quiet and not reporting the fugitive to authorities. There are numerous examples of such "business transactions" in this book. It is not that wealth was a guarantee of survival, but it allowed for a greater chance. At the beginning Krystyna Chiger claims to vividly remember those events, although at the outbreak of WWII she was less than four. The book starts with a quote from the Ignacy Chiger's (Krystyna's father) unpublished memoir. As the book progresses, it refers more and more to events that only Ignacy could have known, his thoughts and feelings. Thus, it appears that Ms. Chiger's memory was influenced, re-enforced and, potentially even planted, by later conversations with her parents or by reading her father's notes. This in no way makes her recollection untrue (on a side note, it would be nice if Ignacy's memoir was added to the book). The events the book describes were taking place in a disputed (at that time) city known as Lvov (Russian), Lviv (Ukranian), Lwow (Polish), Lemberg (German). Today it is part of Ukraine and it remains a hotbed of Ukrainian nationalism. There were three major ethnic groups in the city - Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews, with lots of tension between them all. The biggest mystery which is not answered in the book is why a Jewish girl was given a very Christian name - Krystyna. I believe this was an unusual combination. The book's main hero is Ignacy Chiger. He appears as a modern day biblical Joseph - capable of success in any situation. He was rich before the war. Ignacy's small family lived in a big apartment in the center of the city. His father owned a factory. His wife had a store. It is not clear what exactly he did himself. One thing is known - for some reason he had to carry a gun, which in itself was illegal. It is explained that he feared attacks by Ukrainians, although such attacks were highly unlikely in the center of the city, especially after Soviets took over. So, it appears that Chiger was a gesheft maher - an "entrepreneur" and an expert in wealth accumulation. He also had a knack for being just one step ahead of any changes. When the family was forced to share their apartment after the Soviet annexation of Western Ukraine, Ignacy himself found new neighbors whom he liked, rather than chance random assignment from the authorities. When the family lost their businesses, Chiger managed to land into a very lucrative position at a bakery. During food rationing this allowed him - let's call things their names - to steal food and sell it at black market. In another episode Krystyna remembers how a high ranking German officer Wepke took family piano. First, Wepke, who appeared to be very good piano player, examined the piano, declared it a very fine instrument. Then Ignacy engraved his name on the piano and carefully wrapped it before it was taken. Wepke returned the blanket with a bottle a wine. The book does not say it, but I have a feeling that Chiger arranged this transaction - the piano was to be taken anyway. This way the high ranking official got to know his name, potentially leading to some sort of a return of a favor. It would be logical to assume that Wepke reasoned that the German state declared Jews outside the law, they were loosing their possessions, why not take it before someone else does. It is interesting to compare this with author's reasoning for stealing food from the Soviet state-run bakery, while there was a food shortage and some people were indeed starving - it was an "extra shipment", it did not belong to anybody. Carpe diem, redistribution of wealth, seven habits of successful people - whatever you want to call it! Wealth also introduces classes in the society and the book mentions them, sometimes in quite unusual places. The usual one is when Chigers express disdain for the "ungrateful" workers in their nationalized factory. The unusual one is when they described ghetto commander Grzymek as being low class, as if it would be better if the commander was somebody more refined and educated - like doctor Mengele. About the sewers. Escape to or through the sewers was an idea of another Jewish man - Weiss. The tunnel was constructed by Weiss from his basement. Initially, there were about seventy people in the group. In the sewer they met Polish worker Socha who wanted to be paid 500 zlotys per day for helping them - a large sum at that time. Chiger agreed to pay half of the total amount, while his family consisted of only four people. In the end of the book we learn that Socha wanted to own his own tavern and that he did indeed profit from the money he was paid. Chiger's paying lion share of Socha's fee sent a clear signal of who was important in the group - as Krystyna Chiger writes, Socha immediately fell in love with the family. After the war Chiger is shown Socha's accumulated wealth, and he is happy that it is intact. It is almost as if these money, silverware, diamonds and gold watches were a person (long before Citizens United). This kind of makes wealth (material possessions) one of the main characters in the book. Finally, surprisingly or not, the biggest villain in the book is Weiss. He is mentioned as a tormentor more often and with more disdains that any other character, even Grzymek. Of course, he is not here to present his side of the story. One thing is clear about him - he was poor.
As I have been researching the Holocaust, I saw "The Girl In the Green Sweater" had just been released. I believe that was in 2008. Since I had other survivor stories to read, I put off the purchase of this book until recently. Finally, I could wait no longer. The cover of the book has been calling out to me ever since I first saw the title and cover of the book. What an incredible read of history about the Holocaust years. With each Holocaust survivor story I have read, I gain invaluable wisdom, lessons, and more insight for the will to live. I learn that no matter insurmountable odds against the Jewish people, there were those who conquered and overcame those odds. I also continue to learn about the heroes in the Jewish people's lives who risked everything to save and preserve them. This story is really a story within a story. One component of this story reveals the character one of the heroes, Leopold Socha. His continued street smarts and ingenuity was instrumental to keeping his Jewish family alive in underground world called the sewer. Socha's quick thinking along with his survival skills locked him into a protective mode over those that were under his care and psychologically began a redemptive lifestyle from his past that was jaded and full of unlawful actions. The second component is about the people he selected to rescue and begin a long journey to save, protect, and risk his own life. Ultimately, there will be 11 survivors. In those survivors, is one nuclear family. A family of four, the Chiger family, that made it through the Holocaust in tact and alive. This family of four would go on to become one of three nuclear families in their town to survive. Incredible odds against them. Yet, because of the actions of Socha and his team of sewer workers, this family survived. As a teacher, this story and other Holocaust stories have provided me with such rich teaching material about the human complexities. Those who choose to speak out. Those who choose to remain silent. Those who have compassion. Those who ridicule. Those who hate. Those who love. Those that feel a sense of entitlement. And those who continue to love through it all. In this story and others, I have witnessed through the words of the survivors the importance of creating a sense of normal despite such incredible chaos. Ignacy Chiger, a very educated and wise man, continued to teach his children while living in the sewers. Absolutely amazing. His desire to educate outweighed any obstacles he was living through, faced with, and having to overcome while simultaneously dealing with those obstacles. The book first gives the history of their area of Lvov, Poland. A place that is first Russian occupied before the German occupation. The reader will be given history of this land and how it affects the people living in it. Great information to understanding the history of this time period. Once the German occupation occur, there has to be quick thinking and planning in order to even have a chance at survivor. In planning, life in the sewer begins. Such a historical piece of writing and never a boring spot in the storyline. I highly encourage all to read. A life lesson in this story; "Where there's a will there's a way." A timely piece for today's culture that no matter what wrong has been done to you in your life, you can choice to take your life back without rev
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