Sent by the Red Cross to recuperate in Sweden, she slowly blossomed as she discovered books and language and art. She was imprisoned in a succession of concentration camps until the end of the war. She spent the days of her childhood in hiding with her brother-who was disguised as a girl-and their Catholic nanny in the countryside, the ghetto, and finally in a convent where the Nazis caught up with her. Poised, forthright, and always ready to embrace life, Anita Lobel is the main character in the most personal story she will ever tell.Anita Lobel was barely five years old when World War II began and the Nazis burst into her home in Krakow, Poland, changing her life forever. This haunting book, illustrated with the author's archival photographs, is the remarkable account of her life during those years. Anita Lobel was barely five when the war began and sixteen by the time she came to America from Sweden, where she had been sent to recover at the end of the war. The beloved Caldecott Honor artist now recounts a tale of vastly different kind - her own achingly potent memoir of a childhood of flight, imprisonment, and uncommon bravery in Nazi-occupied Poland.
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