ePub The Story Of The Battle Between The U. S. Steam Sloop-Of-War Kearsage And The Rebel Cruiser Alabama (1873) by James Magee in History

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True story from the major motion picture "In Darkness;" official 2012 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.In 1943; with Lvov's 150;000 Jews having been exiled; killed; or forced into ghettos and facing extermination; a group of Polish Jews daringly sought refuge in the city's sewer system. The last surviving member this group; Krystyna Chiger; shares one of the most intimate; harrowing and ultimately triumphant tales of survival to emerge from the Holocaust. Originally published as The Girl in the Green Sweater; In Darkness is Chiger's harrowing first-person account of the fourteen months she spent with her family in the fetid; underground sewers of Lvov.In Darkness is also the story of Leopold Socha; the group's unlikely savior. A Polish Catholic and former thief; Socha risked his life to help Chiger's underground family survive; bringing them food; medicine; and supplies. A moving memoir of a desperate escape and life under unimaginable circumstances; In Darkness is ultimately a tale of intimate survival; friendship; and redemption.