The Girl in the Green Sweater - Hardcover

""The Girl in the Green Sweater" manages to touch us in an unexpected way, revealing highs and lows in man's capacity for evil, as well his capacity to love life and other human beings." -- Naomi Ragen, author of "The Saturday Wife" and "The Covenant" "With a powerful story and a keen voice, Chiger's Holocaust survivor's tale is a worthy and memorable addition to the canon."--"Publishers Weekly" "An important addition to Holocaust literature that vividly describes a harrowing childhood faced with enormous strength and courage."--Michael Bart, author of "Until Our Last Breath: A Holocaust Story of Love and Partisan Resistance"

In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been forced into ghettos and facing extermination, Krystyna Chiger's family daringly sought refuge in the city's sewer system. "The Girl in the Green Sweater" is Chiger's harrowing first-person account of fourteen months in the fetid, underground sewers of Lvov. "The Girl in the Green Sweater" is also the story of Leopold Socha, the group's unlikely savious. 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.