A little girl in Auschwitz : a heart-wrenching true story of survival, hope and love
Maksymowicz, Lidia2024
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Lidia Maksymowicz was just three years old when she arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau with her mother, grandparents and foster brother. They were from Belarus, their 'crime' was that they supported the partisan resistance to Nazi occupation. Once there, Lidia was picked by Mengele for his experiments and sent to the children's block. It was here that she survived eighteen months of hell. Injected with infectious diseases, desperately malnourished, she came close to death. Her mother - who risked her life to secretly visit Lidia - was her only tie to humanity. By the time Birkenau was liberated her family had disappeared. Even her mother was presumed dead. Lidia was adopted by a woman from the nearby town of Oswiecim. Too traumatized to feel emotion, she was not an easy child to care for but she came to love her adoptive mother and her new home.
Main title:
A little girl in Auschwitz : a heart-wrenching true story of survival, hope and love / Lidia Maksymowicz with Paolo Rodari ; translated by Shaun Whiteside.
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Edition:
[New] edition / foreword by His Holiness Pope Francis.
Imprint:
London : Pan Books, 2024.
Collation:
vii, 191 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: as The little girl who could not cry. London: Macmillan, 2023.Translated from the Italian.Previous edition of this translation: published as The little girl who could not cry. London: Macmillan, 2023.
ISBN:
9781529094404 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.5318092940.5318940.531809B/MAKB-MAK940.531
LC class:
D804.48
Language:
EnglishItalian
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BRN:
3638235
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