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Girl
My Childhood and the Second World War|
9,49 € |
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| Verlag: | Indiana University Press |
| Format: | |
| Veröffentl.: | 29.08.2016 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780253022417 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 280 |
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<p>Alona Frankel was just two years old when Germany invaded Poland. After a Polish carpenter agreed to hide her parents but not her, Alona's parents desperately handed her over to a greedy woman who agreed to hide her only as long as they continued to send money. Isolated from her parents and living among pigs, horses, mice, and lice, Alona taught herself to read and drew on scraps of paper. The woman would send these drawings to Alona's parents as proof that Alona was still alive. In time, the money ran out and Alona was tossed into her parents' hiding place, at this point barely recognizing them. After Poland's liberation, Alona's mother was admitted to a terminal hospital and Alona handed over to a wealthy, arrogant family of Jewish survivors who eventually cast her off to an orphanage. Despite these daily horrors and dangers surrounding her, Alona's imagination could not be restrained. A powerful testament to the resilience of the human spirit, Girl is the story of a young girl's self-preservation through a horrible war and its aftermath. Faithful to the perspective of the heroine herself, Frankel, now a world renowned children's author and illustrator, reveals a little girl full of life in a terrible, evil world.</p>
<p>Perhaps Alona Frankel, who has never cried, writes to enable herself to cry, or to become visible rather than invisible; to bring into being that girl whose creativity and rich vision were blocked and strangled. But there is more to this book than the story of a persecuted childhood, for hidden behind the events is a conflict between the forces of darkness around her and the forces of light; between pessimism and lack of love and the ability to illuminate the world with her inner strength and her longing for beauty.14</p>
<p>Alona Frankel was born in Krakow, Poland, in June of 1937. After surviving World War II, she immigrated to Israel in 1949. Alona has written and illustrated over 50 children's books, including the international best seller Once Upon a Potty. Her books have won numerous prizes, including several Parents' Choice awards.</p>
<p>Read an <a href="https://www.scribd.com/doc/311508435/Girl-My-Childhood-and-the-Second-World-War-excerpt">excerpt</a> from the book Connect with Alona Frankel: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/alonafrankel" target="_blank">Facebook</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/alonafrankel" target="_blank">Twitter</a> <a href="http://alonafrankel.com" target="_blank">Website</a> Videos: <a href="https://youtu.be/4s9d6aUu3wE" target="_blank">Meet Alona Frankel</a> Watch Alona Frankel discuss her book in this <a href="https://youtu.be/ywRCO7ocUG4" target="_blank">clip</a> from the documentary Culture Hero. More clips from the documentary are available <a href="https://vimeo.com/channels/1010370" target="_blank">here.</a> <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ywRCO7ocUG4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>A new Anne Frank...What a tribute to the human spirit that a little girl, subjected to the utmost cruelties, and forced to be aware of the frailty of her existence, should have survived to become a talented writer and illustrator, her imagination, artistic spirit and eloquence speaking to the whole world about lessons we must never forget.</p>
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