![]() ![]() The Girl in the Green Sweater by Krystyna Chiger consisted of her memories of her time, as a small child, in a ghetto and then in hiding in the sewers of Lvov. Two other memoirs I read recently were similar, but with peculiar twists. ![]() ![]() How much was remembered? How much was recreated? The author(s) chose to fill in extensive details, with conversations throughout, rather than paraphrases and descriptions, so that it reads like a novel. Later, after Bernstein’s death, Samuels, her daughter, found the manuscript, missing various pages, in her mother’s home, and, unaware of the history, happened to meet someone who was interested in publishing it, after she did her own research to fill in what must have happened in the missing pages. She sat for extensive interviews with Thornton, who took the resulting material and shaped it into a book, then tried to get it published, but couldn’t find a publisher. The first of these was the woman who experienced these events. ![]()
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