Clara Kramer (F / Poland, 1927-2018), Holocaust survivor

Clara Kramer (F / Poland, 1927-2018), Holocaust survivor.

• KEYWORDS : <Hidden Children>
• MEMOIRS : Clara's War (2008)

Book : Clara's War (2008)

• Clara's War: One Girl's Story of Survival (London: Ebury Press, and New York, NY: Ecco Press, 2008)
• Clara's War - wiki.en

"Kramer, president of the Holocaust Resource Foundation at Kean University, recounts her life as a frightened, hungry Jewish teenager living in Zólkiew, Poland, during the Holocaust. She and her parents were rescued by Righteous Gentiles ... Cara Kramer was a typical Polish-Jewish teenager from a small town at the outbreak of the Second World War. When the Germans invaded, Clara's family was taken in by the Becks, a Volksdeutsche (ethnically German) family from their town. Mrs. Beck worked as Clara's family's housekeeper. Mr. Beck was known to be an alcoholic, a womanizer, and a vocal anti-Semite. But on hearing that Jewish families were being led into the woods and shot, Beck sheltered the Kramers and two other Jewish families ... Eighteen people in all lived in a bunker dug out of the Becks' basement. Fifteen-year-old Clara kept a diary during the twenty terrifying months she spent in hiding, writing down details of their unpredictable life—from the house's catching fire to Mr. Beck's affair with Clara's neighbor; from the nightly SS drinking sessions in the room above to the small pleasure of a shared Christmas carp ... Against all odds, Clara lived to tell her story, and her diary is now part of the permanent collection of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C."--Publisher description.