A little girl in Auschwitz : a heart-wrenching true story of survival, hope and love / Lidia Maksymowicz.
By: Maksymowicz, Lidia.
Publisher: London : Pan Books, 2024Description: 208 pages ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781529094404 (pbk.) :; 1529094402 (pbk.) :.Uniform titles: Little girl who could not cry Subject(s): Maksymowicz, Lidia -- Childhood and youth | Auschwitz (Concentration camp) | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives | Jewish children in the Holocaust | Warfare and Defence | Warfare and Defence | Poland | Memoirs | European history | History | The HolocaustDDC classification: 940.5318092 Summary: Lidia Maksymowicz was just three years old when she arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau with her mother, grandparents and foster brother. They were from Belarus, their 'crime' that they supported the partisan resistance to Nazi occupation. Once there, Lidia was picked by Mengele for his experiments and sent to the children's block. It was here that she survived eighteen months of hell. Injected with infectious diseases, desperately malnourished, she came close to death. Her mother - who risked her life to secretly visit Lidia - was her only tie to humanity. By the time Birkenau was liberated her family had disappeared. Even her mother was presumed dead. Lidia was adopted by a woman from the nearby town of Oswiecim. Too traumatized to feel emotion, she was not an easy child to care for but she came to love her adoptive mother and her new home.| Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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| Adult book | Haydock Library Adult Non-Fiction | 940.531 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 38055400026256 |
Originally published: as The little girl who could not cry. London: Macmillan, 2023.
Lidia Maksymowicz was just three years old when she arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau with her mother, grandparents and foster brother. They were from Belarus, their 'crime' that they supported the partisan resistance to Nazi occupation. Once there, Lidia was picked by Mengele for his experiments and sent to the children's block. It was here that she survived eighteen months of hell. Injected with infectious diseases, desperately malnourished, she came close to death. Her mother - who risked her life to secretly visit Lidia - was her only tie to humanity. By the time Birkenau was liberated her family had disappeared. Even her mother was presumed dead. Lidia was adopted by a woman from the nearby town of Oswiecim. Too traumatized to feel emotion, she was not an easy child to care for but she came to love her adoptive mother and her new home.