Krystyna chiger wikipedia

          The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow, written by coauthors Krystyna Chiger and Daniel Paisner, was published by St. Martin's Press in.!

           

           

          Prior to World War Two, seven-year-old Krystyna and her four-year-old brother Pawelek led a happy life with their parents Jerzy and Peppa Chiger in Lvov.

          The City had the third largest Jewish community in Poland and was known as both a cultural and industrial center.   

          But when the Nazis stormed into the country and took control of Lvov, in June, 1941, extremely harsh anti-Jewish measures were immediately put into action.

          In May , seven-year-old Krystyna Chiger escaped the Holocaust into the sewers under the Lvov, Poland, ghetto with her mother, father.

        1. Kristine Keren (borm Krystyna Chiger) was born in Lvov, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine), on October 28, , to Ignacy and Paulina (Pepa) Gold Chiger.
        2. The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow, written by coauthors Krystyna Chiger and Daniel Paisner, was published by St. Martin's Press in.
        3. The last survivor of the group, Krystyna Chiger, published a memoir of her experience, The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow ().
        4. Prior to World War Two, seven-year-old Krystyna and her four-year-old brother Pawelek led a happy life with their parents Jerzy and Peppa Chiger in Lvov.

          5. During the summer, thousands of Lvov Jews were killed during a series of massacres. By December, 1941, the Nazis forced the city's 150,000 Jews into the newly established ghetto and brutality accelerated with murder, violence and terror. 

          Raped by Nazis in the streets of Lvov 

          The Nazis enacted their usual pattern of confiscation of Jewish property, personal humiliations and deprivations of every sort, forced labor, and deportation to KZ camps.

          The Ghetto's last few thousand inhabitants were removed in June 1943