Claiming My Place: Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Holocaust

by Planaria Price, Helen Reichmann West, Helen West

Book Overview

A Junior Library Guild selection

Claiming My Place is the true story of a young Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust by escaping to Nazi Germany and hiding in plain sight.

Meet 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374305293
• ISBN13: 9780374305291
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 12 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 7 to Postsecondary