Description: A vivid and unsparing memoir of the experiences of an eight year old child incarcerated in the Warsaw Ghetto. Her escape from the Ghetto and from Warsaw following the Uprising was due to her mother's resourcefulness. Settling finally into an outwardly comfortable American life she repressed her horrific memories until compelled to bear witness.
Review Quotes: "Kristine Keese survived childhood in the Warsaw Ghetto but when she arrived in New York in 1946 at the age of 12, her new classmates did not believe what she had suffered. Seventy years later, with astounding detail and clarity, she tells her story in Shadows of Survival, a Child's Memoir of the Warsaw Ghetto ... Some of her experiences are those of any child -- being so engrossed in her library books that she allows the dinner to burn, for instance. Others are drastically different -- such as walking home from a bread-buying expedition and having the loaf, still in her mother's hand, bitten by a starving child."--The Jewish Chronicle, 13 Jan 2017