Subtitled: the Incredible True Story of a German-Jewish Teenager's Struggle to Survive in Nazi-Occupied Poland
Nonfiction by Betty Lauer
Betty Lauer was only twelve in 1938 when Nazi authorities forced her family from their home in Germany and dumped them across the border into Poland. There followed her seven-year struggle to survive in the soon-conquered Poland as the Nazi killing machine rolled across the Jews of continental Europe. Betty was one of only
four members of her family to live past those terrible war years, and
ninety-six people from her immediate family are listed in the memorial to the dead in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.
This story is an amazing firsthand account of her experience, and it was both fascinating and terrible to read.
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