Winter in the Morning: A Young Girl's Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and Beyond, 1939-1945
Janina Bauman. Free Press, $0 (195pp) ISBN 978-0-02-902530-7
This affecting personal account of life in and out of the Warsaw Ghetto stirringly describes the experiences and emotions of a well-to-do, unreligious, non-Yiddish-speaking teenager who suffered the horrors of being Jewish in a land controlled by the Nazis. Based on her diaries from the war years, the book depicts Bauman's growing self-awareness as she fought for survival. The diaries chronicle her relationships with family and friends, first feelings of love, escape from the ghetto and from Warsaw itself. Non-Jewish Poles, at risk to their own lives, hid her, her mother and sister in cupboards, closets, forests and on farms: though her father and uncle were killed by the Russians, she survived, despite contracting tuberculosis. The book closes with Bauman's reactions to the end of the war.(March)
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Reviewed on: 01/01/1986
Genre: Nonfiction
Hardcover - 195 pages - 978-0-86068-647-7
Paperback - 216 pages - 978-0-86068-652-1