Clara's War: One Girl's Story of Survival, Paperback - Clara Kramer

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On 21 July 1942 the Nazis took control of the small Polish town of Zolkiew, life for Jewish 15-year-old Clara Kramer was never to be the same again.

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A little girl is smuggled out of a Jewish ghetto. Two courageous women. And an inspirational story of survival.Publisher: Ad Lib Publishers LtdAuth...

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The memoir of a young Jewish seamstress who survived Terezin, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Franci's daughter, the Holocaust historian Helen Epstein...

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Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Tom ClavinNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 167 x 245 x 30Cover type: Hardba...

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On October 21, 1966, thousands of tons of coal mining waste slid down a mountainside and devastated the mining village of Aberfan. The black mass c...