Beyond These Walls
Escaping the Warsaw Ghetto - A Young Girl's Story
$28.46
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
17 October 2006
Summary
Janina Bauman was a year older than Anne Frank when the Second World War began but, unlike The Diary of Anne Frank, this is a story of survival. When Hitler’s decree forced her family into the Warsaw Ghetto, Janina, an intelligent, lively girl, suddenly found herself in a cramped flat, hiding with other Jewish families. At first even curfews and the casual cruelty meted out by the German occupiers could not dim her passion for books, boys and romance. Then came the raids, and Janina,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844083190 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844083195 |
| Author: | Janina Bauman |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 17 October 2006 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 124mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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I found it absorbing … testaments such as Janina Bauman’s are important and should never be allowed to fade away. The drama of Anne Frank is rightly always before us but the equally vital stories of those who suffered but survived need to be listened to with just as much attention - Margaret Forster
A profound and moving book which everyone ought to read - Alan Sillitoe, New Statesman‘A magnificent testimony to the people of the ghetto … a profound autobiographical meditation - NEW SOCIETYA deeply moving but surprisingly unselfpitying book, a real pleasure to read - TESI found it absorbing … testaments such as Janina Bauman’s are important and should never be allowed to fade away. The drama of Anne Frank is rightly always before us but the equally vital stories of those who suffered but survived need to be listened to with just as much attention - Margaret ForsterA profound and moving book which everyone ought to read - Alan Sillitoe, New Statesman‘A magnificent testimony to the people of the ghetto … a profound autobiographical meditation - NEW SOCIETYA deeply moving but surprisingly unselfpitying book, a real pleasure to read - TESAbout The Author
Janina Bauman
Janina Lewinson-Bauman was born in 1926. The comfortable life she shared with her family in Warsaw was destroyed with the outbreak of the Second World War. She worked in Polish film as a translator, researcher and script editor. Janina Bauman died in 2009.
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