If Only It Were Fiction

By Elsa Thon

Elsa Thon's family tradition of storytelling illuminates and enriches her striking coming- of-age story, If Only It Were Fiction. She was a 16-year-old photographer's apprentice when the Nazis occupied her town of Pruszk?w, Poland. After her family was sent to the Warsaw ghetto, Elsa joined a community farm, where she was recruited by the Underground and sent to Krakow with false papers. "Passing" as a gentile, she worked in a photographic studio until she was betrayed and transported from the Krakow ghetto to forced labour camps. Despite her deep belief in destiny, Elsa refuses to bow to her fate as a Jew in war-torn Poland.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1897470339
• ISBN13: 9781897470336
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"