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Clara Kramer is the daughter of a Jewish factory owner who wrote the book Clara's War: One Girl's Story of Survival. The story is her rmemoir about the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939. It tells of how her hometown of Zolkiew is initially in the Russian occupied part of Poland and how she toon meer witnesses several friends and family being killed or deported by the Soviets. When the Russians switch sides and join with the Allies following Germany's invasion of Soviet Union, the Red Army retreats, and the town is occupied by the Nazis. Jews are stripped of their assets and told to relocate to the ghetto, but having heard stories of the treatment of Jews by the Nazis, Clara's family and some friends make the decision to go into hiding. With the help of Valentin Beck, an ethnic German, and his family, Clara, her family and others are hidden in a purpose-built bunker under Melman's house [ who also share the bunker with Clara's family] , which is no larger than a horse stall. Clara's mother urges her to begin writing a diary so that if they do not survive the war, the world will know what happened to them. This became her memoir - Clara's War: One Girl's Story of Survuval. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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- Clara Kramer, née Schwarz, was a teenager in Zolkiew, Poland, where her Polish Jewish family owned a factory, when the Soviets occupied Galicia, her part of the country, in 1939. They killed or deported to forced labor some of her friends and family members. The Nazis invaded in World War II in 1942 and forced the Jewish residents into a ghetto. Clara's family and their friends decided to go into hiding.With the help of Valentin Beck, an ethnic German, Clara, her family and others (up to 18 people) are hidden in an underground bunker under a house in the town of Zhovkva. Her mother urged her to keep a diary so that if they did not survive the war, there would be a record of what had happened to them. All but one of those in the bunker survived to be liberated by the Red Army. After the war, Clara spent four years in a displaced persons camp, where she met her future husband, Sol Kramer. They married and moved to Israel, where their two sons were born. In 1957, the family emigrated to the USA, settling in Brooklyn, New York and then Elizabeth, New Jersey. She became a founder of the Holocaust Resource Center at Kean University. Her memoir based on the diary, written with Stephen Glantz, Clara's War: One Girl's Story of Survival, was published in 2009.
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I was drawn to this book because her married name is the same as my maiden name. Could there be a connection...?
Aside from that, I loved this book. It deserves a 5 in all my categories. I could not put it down. I was scared, I was disgusted, I was so many things! I am amazed that 18 people survived. The perseverance of the human spirit!
I am so happy that Mama made Clara write a diary!
Aside from that, I loved this book. It deserves a 5 in all my categories. I could not put it down. I was scared, I was disgusted, I was so many things! I am amazed that 18 people survived. The perseverance of the human spirit!
I am so happy that Mama made Clara write a diary!
A piece that can stand with other great holocaust literature. Clara describes her life and Polish town a bit before Sept. 1, 1939, but most of the book describes her Jewish family's struggle to survive for the next 6 years. Some members of her family and neighbors end up spending nearly 2 years below the floor of a house. Clara records much of what is going on during this time in a diary, which is the basis for the book. I like the fact that there isn't a lot of "day XX, same as day YY," kind of daily descriptions of their horrible situation. She does spend a lot of time discussing her feelings with the reader, and lauding the family who is protecting them, as well as giving us descriptions of the challenges they are facing. Worth reading for anyone interested in the holocaust.
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I ofte question why I read so many memoirs by Holocaust survivors; I'm not longer ensconced in the academic world (therefore no longer required to read books that are often depressing and intellectual), my family has been out of Europe since the late 1800s (and therefore not involved in the War efforts), and we're not at all Jewish (at least not to my knowledge). But in reading this story of a family's miraculous survival I finally found my answer laid out in front of me; I read for the same reason that Clara wrote hre diary in the first place: for her story (and that of her people) to be remembered and for these attrocities to never happen again. Of course other racial genocides occured after the Holocaust (most memorably in Sarajevo and Rwanda), but eventually the message of the survivors must sink in that we must all learn to get along on a global and multi-ethnic scale.… (meer)
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Estas palavras foram escritas por Clara Kramer quando tinha 15 anos, e nelas está contida a agonia de um povo.
No dia 21 de julho de 1942, os Nazis conquistam a cidade polaca de Zolkiew e dão início à deportação e massacre de milhares de judeus. Clara e a sua família conseguem esconder-se num bunker apressadamente escavado à mão. A viver por cima deles e a protegê-los está a família Beck. Embora se diga antissemita, o Sr. Beck arrisca diariamente a vida pelas pessoas que acolheu. É um dos rostos secretos da resistência à barbárie.
No bunker, as condições de vida são inumanas, os relatos da morte de familiares e amigos são diários, o terror é constante. Mas os laços de amor e solidariedade que se estabelecem entre todos dão conta da grandeza que faz pulsar o coração humano. Clara escreve para sobreviver, para testemunhar, para se impedir de esquecer que a vida é, acima de tudo, um milagre.
Dos cinco mil judeus que habitavam Zolkiew antes da guerra, sobreviveram menos de sessenta.
Uma história tão tocante quanto O Diário de Anne Frank e A Lista de Schindler. É assim que a imprensa internacional define este livro baseado na vida extraordinária de Clara Kramer. O seu diário está exposto no Museu Memorial do Holocausto, em Washington. O bunker ainda existe.… (meer)