BOOK REVIEW: ‘Girl: My Childhood and the Second World War’

Reading this searing account of a hydra-headedly horrible childhood endured by Polish-born Israeli children’s writer Alona Frankel reminds one just how complex that loaded term “Holocaust survivor” is. Mrs. Frankel’s devastatingly frank autobiography has been compared to “The Diary of Anne Frank” and to the writings of Primo Levi, but, of course, they both were inmates of Auschwitz, a fate avoided by the eponymous “Girl.” Yet after finishing her account of the travails — and this word seems woefully inadequate to describe what she went through — saying that she was lucky compared to them somehow sticks in one’s throat.
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