This heart-stopping story of a young girl hiding from the Nazis
is based on Clara Kramer's diary from her years surviving in an
underground bunker with seventeen other people.
Clara Kramer was a typical Polish Jewish teenager from a small
town at the outbreak of the Second World War. When the Germans
invaded, Clara's family was taken in by the Becks, a Volksdeutsch
(ethnically German) family from their town. Mr. Beck was known to
be an alcoholic, a womanizer, and a vocal anti-Semite. His wife had
worked as Clara's family's housekeeper. But on hearing that Jewish
families were being led into the woods and shot, Beck sheltered the
Kramers and two other Jewish families.
In all, eighteen people lived in a bunker dug out of the Becks'
basement. Fifteen-year-old Clara kept a diary during the twenty
terrifying months she was in hiding, writing down details of their
unpredictable life, from the house's catching fire to Beck's affair
with Clara's neighbor; the nightly SS drinking sessions in the room
above to the small pleasure of a shared Christmas carp.Against all
odds, Clara lived to tell her story, and her diary is now part of
the permanent collection of the Holocaust Museum in Washington,
D.C.
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