{"product_id":"claiming-my-place-coming-of-age-in-the-shadow-of-the-holocaust-9780578392103","title":"Claiming My Place: Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Holocaust","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Junior Library Guild selection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eClaiming My Place \u003c\/em\u003eis the true story of a young Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust by escaping \u003cem\u003eto\u003c\/em\u003e Nazi Germany and hiding in plain sight.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeet Barbara Reichmann, once known as Gucia Gomolinska: smart, determined, independent, and steadfast in the face of injustice. A Jew growing up in predominantly Catholic Poland during the 1920s and '30s, Gucia studies hard, makes friends, falls in love, and dreams of a bright future. Her world is turned upside down when Nazis invade Poland and establish the first Jewish ghetto of World War II in her town of Piotrkow Trybunalski. As the war escalates, Gucia and her family, friends, and neighbors suffer starvation, disease, and worse. She knows her blond hair and fair skin give her an advantage, and eventually she faces a harrowing choice: risk either the uncertain horrors of deportation to a concentration camp, or certain death if she is caught resisting. She decides to hide her identity as a Jew and adopts the gentile name Danuta Barbara Tanska. Barbara, nicknamed Basia, leaves behind everything and everyone she has ever known in order to claim a new life for herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriting in the first person, author Planaria Price and Helen Reichmann West, Barbara's daughter, bring the immediacy of Barbara's voice to this true account of a young woman whose unlikely survival hinges upon the same determination and defiant spirit already evident in the six-year-old girl we meet as this story begins. The final portion of this narrative, written by Helen, completes Barbara's journey from her immigration to America until her natural, timely death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes maps and photographs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Aliyah Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/03\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780578392103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader Quiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e199073 \/ Claiming My Place: Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Holocaust\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.8 \/ \u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Middle Grade Plus \/ \u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Planaria Price,Helen Reichmann West","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52181255258293,"sku":"9780578392103","price":11.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_cf0629be-5c40-4e10-b1f5-4e21dd0080e7.jpg?v=1768922368","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/claiming-my-place-coming-of-age-in-the-shadow-of-the-holocaust-9780578392103","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}