If Only It Were Fiction (The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs (22))

The Azrieli Foundation (2013)

9781897470336

320 pages | 13 x 229 mm | en_US

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LC Classification 2013464033

Subject

Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives
Jews, biography
Jews, poland
Poland, biography
World war, 1939-1945, underground movements, poland

Plot

Elsa Thon's family tradition of storytelling illuminates and enriches her striking coming- of-age story, If Only It Were Fiction. She was a 16-year-old photographer's apprentice when the Nazis occupied her town of Pruszków, Poland. After her family was sent to the Warsaw ghetto, Elsa joined a community farm, where she was recruited by the Underground and sent to Krakow with false papers. "Passing" as a gentile, she worked in a photographic studio until she was betrayed and transported from the Krakow ghetto to forced labour camps. Despite her deep belief in destiny, Elsa refuses to bow to her fate as a Jew in war-torn Poland.