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The Girl in the Green Sweater
- A Life in Holocaust’s Shadow
- Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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The Girl in the Green Sweater
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Publisher's Summary
The true story from the major motion picture In Darkness, official 2012 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.
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. The Girl in the Green Sweater is Chiger's harrowing first-person account of the 14 months she spent with her family in the fetid, underground sewers of Lvov.
The Girl in the Green Sweater 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, The Girl in the Green Sweater is ultimately a tale of intimate survival, friendship, and redemption.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-02-23
Page turner
I didn’t want to stop listening to this book. It’s read so well. The descriptions of everything were amazing. Sad story, but so important
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- Marjorie Lowry
- 2023-02-09
Excellent story
I have read this story before and was still amazed. I can see Leonard at his reward in Heaven and hope his name is among the righteous gentiles in Israel. Like another reader, I found the narration a little too chipper for such a subject, but she did read well overall.
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- william
- 2022-09-05
Irritating Narration
I found the story fascinating, but the narrator's tone was extremely annoying... she was over-the-top cheerful and upbeat, which was jarringly inappropriate for the content. I'm also skeptical that the author's memory is accurate regarding her own behaviors as a child. Still, very interesting and worth a listen.
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- Olga C.
- 2022-01-18
Didn’t know about the sewers
This was a very detailed, well-written story of a little Jewish girl trying to survive through WWII. Her father did everything he could to save his family and keep them safe.
I truly enjoyed how the narrator spoke for authenticity of the different languages spoken in the book.
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- Adam
- 2022-01-13
Harrowingly empowering story beautifully narrated
This beautifully accounted memoir of a family surviving in the sewers of Lvov under the Nazi regime is an important reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust - NEVER to be forgotten - but also of the power of survival over adversity and the triumph of the human spirit and will. One of the most powerful audiobooks I've ever listened to with wonderful narration by Romy Nordlinger who had the perfect mix of emotion and restraint.