The little girl who could not cry : my testimony /
Maksymowicz, Lidia.
The little girl who could not cry : my testimony / Lidia Maksymowicz with Paolo Rodari ; translated by Shaun Whiteside. - London : Macmillan, 2023. - vii, 191 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cm.
Translated from the Italian.
This is the heartbreaking, inspiring true story of a girl sent to Auschwitz who survived Mengele's evil experiments. Lidia 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. Lidia was picked by Dr Josef Mengele for his experiments and sent to the children's block where 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.
9781529094367 (hbk.) : 18.99 1529094364 (hbk.) : 18.99
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.
Autobiography: general.
European history.
History.
The Holocaust.
D804.48
940.5318 MAK
The little girl who could not cry : my testimony / Lidia Maksymowicz with Paolo Rodari ; translated by Shaun Whiteside. - London : Macmillan, 2023. - vii, 191 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cm.
Translated from the Italian.
This is the heartbreaking, inspiring true story of a girl sent to Auschwitz who survived Mengele's evil experiments. Lidia 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. Lidia was picked by Dr Josef Mengele for his experiments and sent to the children's block where 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.
9781529094367 (hbk.) : 18.99 1529094364 (hbk.) : 18.99
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.
Autobiography: general.
European history.
History.
The Holocaust.
D804.48
940.5318 MAK