The Girl in the Red Coat - Ligocka, Roma; Finckenstein, Iris Von
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When she first saw Schindler's List, Roma Ligocka recognized herself as the little girl in the red coat--fearful, helpless, and perilously fragile. Determined to come to terms with who that young girl was--and how it shaped the woman she became--Ligocka decided to tell the story of her life. In a courageous, moving, and simply-told memoir, Ligocka recounts her terrifying childhood as a Jew hiding from the Nazis in the Krakow ghetto to the communist occupation of Poland through her adulthood as an artist, mother, and Holocaust survivor. The result is a universal and compelling story of…mehr

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When she first saw Schindler's List, Roma Ligocka recognized herself as the little girl in the red coat--fearful, helpless, and perilously fragile. Determined to come to terms with who that young girl was--and how it shaped the woman she became--Ligocka decided to tell the story of her life. In a courageous, moving, and simply-told memoir, Ligocka recounts her terrifying childhood as a Jew hiding from the Nazis in the Krakow ghetto to the communist occupation of Poland through her adulthood as an artist, mother, and Holocaust survivor. The result is a universal and compelling story of heartache, triumph, and acceptance that is a testament to the strength of the human spirit.
As a child in German-occupied Poland, Roma Ligocka was known for the bright strawberry-red coat she wore against a tide of gathering darkness. Fifty years later, Roma, an artist living in Germany, attended a screening of Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, and instantly knew that "the girl in the red coat”—the only splash of color in the film—was her. Thus began a harrowing journey into the past, as Roma Ligocka sought to reclaim her life and put together the pieces of a shattered childhood. The result is this remarkable memoir, a fifty-year chronicle of survival and its aftermath. With brutal honesty, Ligocka recollects a childhood at the heart of evil: the flashing black boots, the sudden executions, her mother weeping, her father vanished...then her own harrowing escape and the strange twists of fate that allowed her to live on into the haunted years after the war. Powerful, lyrical, and unique among Holocaust memoirs, The Girl in the Red Coat eloquently explores the power of evil to twist our lives long after we have survived it. It is a story for anyone who has ever known the darkness of an unbearable past—and searched for the courage to move forward into the light.
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Roma Ligocka with Iris Von Finckenstein. Translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo.