This haunting memoir records the experiences of a young Jewish girl forced to confront the horrors of the Holocaust. Born on 1931 into a well-to-do family, Goldie Szachter Kalib begins her account with a rare portrait of Jewish life in a small Polish town in the 1930s. Although her memories reflect the perceptions of a child, her descriptions offer a wealth of information about Jewish education, politics, and religious practices outside the major...