Krystyna Chiger / Kristine Keren (F / Poland, 1935), Holocaust survivor
Krystyna Chiger (F / Poland, 1935).
- <Lwow Ghetto> <Hidden Children>
- <Memoirs> "The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust’s Shadow" -- See also Robert Marshall, In the Sewers of Lvov: A Heroic Story of Survival from the Holocaust, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
Biography
NOTES : Born October 28, 1935 in Lwow, Ukraine.
Book : The Girl in the Green Sweater (2008)
- The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust’s Shadow (New York, NY: St. Martin's Griffin, 2008).
"In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into ghettos and facing extermination, a group of Polish Jews daringly sought refuge in the city's sewer system. The last surviving member this group, Krystyna Chiger, shares one of the most intimate, harrowing and ultimately triumphant tales of survival to emerge from the Holocaust. Originally published as The Girl in the Green Sweater, In Darkness is Chiger's harrowing first-person account of the fourteen months she spent with her family in the fetid, underground sewers of Lvov ... In Darkness is also the story of Leopold Socha, the group's unlikely savior. A Polish Catholic and former thief, Socha risked his life to help Chiger's underground family survive, bringing them food, medicine, and supplies. A moving memoir of a desperate escape and life under unimaginable circumstances, In Darkness is ultimately a tale of intimate survival, friendship, and redemption ... True story from the major motion picture "In Darkness," official 2012 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film."--Publisher description.
Book : In the Sewers of Lvov, by Robert Marshall (1993)
- Robert Marshall, In the Sewers of Lvov: A Heroic Story of Survival from the Holocaust, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
"Recounts the survival of a group of Jewish refugees living in the Lvov Ghetto, relating how they escaped the Nazis by hiding in the city's sewer system"-- Publisher description.