Sheva's Promise: A Chronicle of Escape from a Nazi Ghetto

by Sylvia Lederman

Book Overview

In this gripping memoir, Lederman tells her story of survival during one of the most horrific episodes in history. Beginning with Lederman as a young girl in Poland in 1941, Sheva's Promise traces her experience in a Nazi ghetto with her mother and sister. Resolved that she must avoid the detention camp to help her family, Lederman obtains a false birth certificate and escapes the ghetto. Through the courage and humanity of a few individuals, she...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815610181
• ISBN13: 9780815610182
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"