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If only it were fiction

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  • Publisher:
    The Azrieli Foundation, 2013
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Thon, Elsa
    Date:
    Created
    2013
    Summary:

    Elsa Thon was a sixteen-year-old photographer's apprentice when the Nazis occupied her town of Pruszków, Poland. When her family was sent to the Warsaw ghetto, Elsa joined a community farm and was recruited by the Underground. Despite her deep belief in destiny, Elsa refused to bow to her fate as a Jew in war-torn Poland.

    Genre:
    Biographies and autobiographies
    Subject(s): Poland | Thon, Elsa, 1923- | Underground movements, War | Jews
    Original Publisher: [S.l.], The Azrieli Foundation
    Language(s): English