cover image Lost Childhood: Mem Tr

Lost Childhood: Mem Tr

Yehuda Nir. Berkley Publishing Group, $7.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-425-12908-1

Nir, whose affluent Polish family endured the German occupation and persecution as Jews, suffered the murder of his father and fled with his mother and sister to escape deportation to an extermination camp. ``A tale of hair-raising adventure and countless hardships, this is also a candid, moving and sometimes funny account of a sensitive boy's crisis-dominated adolescence,'' said PW. (Nov.)