Such Good Girls
The story of the generation of hidden child survivors told through the true experiences of three Jewish girls from Poland, Holland, and France who transcended their traumatic childhoods to lead remarkable lives in America.Only one in ten Jewish children in Europe survived the Holocaust, many in hiding In Such Good Girls, R D Rosen tells the story of these survivors through the true experiences of three girls.Sophie Turner Zaretsky, who spent the war years believing she was an anti Semitic Catholic schoolgirl, eventually became an esteemed radiation oncologist Flora Hogman, protected by a succession of Christians, emerged from the war a lonely, lost orphan, but became a psychologist who pioneered the study of hidden child survivors Unlike Anne Frank, Carla Lessing made it through the war concealed with her family in the home of Dutch strangers before becoming a psychotherapist and key player in the creation of an international organization of hidden child survivors.In braiding the stories of three women who defied death by learning to be such good girls, Rosen examines a silent and silenced generation the last living cohort of Holocaust survivors He provides rich, memorable portraits of a handful of hunted children who, as adults, were determined to deny Hitler any victories, and he recreates the extraordinary event that lured so many hidden child survivors out of their grown up hiding places and finally brought them together. 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Rosen ] – kino-fada.fr This book follows the lives of three of the hidden children during the holocaust, one hidden with her mother using forged papers and passing as Catholic The other two in different and sometimes worse situations.Some would not learn they were Jewish until they were grown and had trouble accepting the truth.Although I have read many books fiction and non about the holocaust I never really thought about those that had survived because they were hidden, raised by other families or just sheltered by This book follows the lives of three of the hidden children during the holocaust, one hidden with her mother using forged papers and passing as Catholic The other two in different and sometimes worse situations.Some would not learn they were Jewish until they were grown and had trouble accepting the truth.Although I have read many books fiction and non about the holocaust I never really thought about...These real life stories are absolutely fascinating This is truly a fascinating story of three women who survived the holocaust and lived to tell their stories The author coins the phrase Such good girls, to describe these women who were brave enough to live through one of the greatest genocide that ever occurred in modern civilization and tell the rest of the world what happened during the reign the Third Reich Sophie Turner was raised by a Catholic family to protect her Jewish identity Fl These real life stories are absolutely fascinating This is truly a fascinating story of three women who survived the holocaust and lived to tell their stories The author coins the phrase Such good girls, to describe these women who were brave enough to live through one of the gre...Such Good Girls The Journey of the Holocaust s Hidden Child Survivors by R D Rosen is a very highly recommended nonfiction account of several hidden child survivors of the holocaust.Most people know of Anne Frank, a child hidden for most of WWII who did not survive, but there were other Jewish children who were hidden and survived the Holocaust In Such Good Girls R D Rosen shares the stories of three woman who survived the holocaust by hiding and how it affected their lives The book is di Such Good Girls The Journey of the Holocaust s Hidden Child Survivors by R D Rosen is a very highly recommended nonfiction account of several hidden child survivors of the holocaust.Most people know of Anne Frank, a child hidden for most of WWII who did not survive, but there were other Jewish children who were hidden and survived the Holocaust In Such Good Girls R D Rosen shares the stories of three woman who survived the holocaust by hiding and how it affected their lives The book is divided into two parts The first tells the individual stories of the three girls, one Polish, ...Also on my blog, Luthien ReviewsOh boy I really struggled with this book.First of all, the title Such Good Girls is rather misleading Most of the first third of the book is concerned with the story of Sophie Turner Zaretsky The stories of the other titular girls Flora Hogman and Carla Lessing have about thirty pages each devoted to them, though Carla shares her space with a fourth hidden child survivor her husband Ed Lessing Mr Lessing is, of course, not a girl good or otherwise nor a Also on my blog, Luthien ReviewsOh boy I really struggled with this book.First of all, the title Such Good...Today s post is on Such Good Girls The Journey of the Holocaust s Hidden Child Survivors by R D Rosen It is 304 pages long including a bibliography, list of documentaries and feature films and is published by HarperCollins The cover has a picture of a young girl praying in a garden The intended reader is someone who is interested in Holocaust history There is some language, tal...3.5 stars Yet another piece to the Holocaust I ve read little about the hidden children The book started off being written inof a novel format which I liked I wish the part written about Flora had included , as it came right after the section written about Sophie which was muchdetailed After the first section of the book, I found itdifficult to read as it switched from being novel like, tojournalistic The part written about the hidden children survivor s struggl 3.5 stars Yet another piece to the Holocaust I ve read little about the hidden children The book started off being written inof a novel format which I liked I wish the part written about Flora had included , as it came right after the section written about Sophie which was muchdetailed After the first section of the book, I found itdifficult to read as it switched from being novel like, tojournalistic The part written about the hidden children survivor s struggle to identify...This book will break your heart It is a narrative of the lives of the hidden children of the Holocaust as told through the individual stories of three of them.These children were sequestered at the homes of mostly Christians and not just Christians, but Righteous among the Nations Christians for several years in Poland, the Netherlands, and Germany during the Holocaust During this period, their parents instructed them never to mention that they were Jewish, and in one case, the mother dril This book will break your heart It is a narrative of the lives of the hidden children of the Holocaust as told through the individual stories of three of them.These children were sequestered at the homes of mostly Christians and not just Christians, but Righteous among the Nations Christians for several years in Poland, the Netherlands, and Germany during the Holocaust During this period, their parents instructed them never to mention that they were Jewish, and in one case, the mother drilled her daughter on the catechism so she could pass for Roman Catholic.The strategy was successful in that they all survived the Holocaust, but problematic in that they didn t know they were Jewish or what a Jew was They ended up in...I received this book as a free copy from the publisher to read and review, and I have to say that I went through such a range of emotions as I relived the Holocaust through the eyes of the hidden children The book mostly chronicles the stories of three girls Sophie, Flora and Carla , their lives as children in hiding in Europe and their lives after the war and subsequent adulthood in New York City although towards the end of the book, short histories of other hidden children are also chronicl I received this book as a free copy from the publisher to read and review, and I have to say that I went through such a range of emotions as I relived the Holocaust through the eyes of the hidden children The book mostly chronicles the stories of three girls Sophie, Flora and Carla , their lives as children in hiding in Europe and their lives after the war and subsequent adulthood in New York City although towards the end of the book, short histories of other hidden children are also chronicled as each experience was different for each survivor It goes without saying that an adult survivor of the Holocaust ...My consensus of the holocaust is its about the survivors of the concentration camps during WWII This book opened my eyes to a whole generation of what s known as the hidden child survivors Children separated from their families, watch them die in some instances, forced to denounce their heritage, religious beliefs in order to survive the Nazi persecution of the Jews These children would be taken in by strangers, some good, some bad, forced to hide in abandoned buildings, always living with th My consensus of the holocaust is its about the survivors of the concentration camps during WWII This book opened my eyes to a whole ge...Fascinating story of the hidden children of WWII We all know about Anne Frank, but I was not aware of the vast underground of children who were taken in by non Jews and saved by having their Jewish identities erased The author picks and chooses the stories to tell, which is understandable I was bothered by the book s lack of good editing for me,anda problem these days where are the editors If that doesn t bother you particularly, and you re interested in WWII history, you w Fascinating story of the hidden children of WWII We all know about Anne Frank, but I was not aware of the vast undergro...
- 16 March 2018 R.D. Rosen
- Hardcover
- 304 pages
- 0062297104
- R.D. Rosen
- Such Good Girls