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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraph
List of Characters
Preface
Becoming Basia, 1942
First Grade, 1922
Piotrków Trybunalski, 1922
Mama, 1922–1924
Fourth Grade, 1925–1926
Judaism, 1926
Zionism, 1928
The Gymnasium, 1927–1934
Love, 1931–1933
The Rabbi, 1934–1935
The University, 1937
Passover, April 1939
Wojna!, September 1–25, 1939
The Ghetto, October 8–November 23, 1939
Labor Camps, 1940
Heniek, May 1941
Hendla Libeskind Gomolinska, July–October 1941
The Beginning of the End, May–August 1942
Escape from the Ghetto, September 1942
Nowy Sącz, September 1942
Going Home, November 1942
Sabina, December 1942
Into the Lions’ Den, February 1943–July 1944
Losing Sabina, July 1944–April 13, 1945
Liberation, May 5–June 1, 1945
Piotrków, July 1945
Hela and Marek, August 1945
Munich, September 1945–March 1946
Leon, March–April 9, 1946
Marriage, April 1946–February 1947
New Lives, February–September 1947
Endings, 1947–1951
New Beginnings, 1951–2007: An Afterword by Helen Reichmann West
What Happened to the Others
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Photo Credits
PHOTOGRAPHS
Sura Gitla Gomolinska, nicknamed Gucia, at age twenty-one in Kraków, Poland, 1937
Claiming My Place Photo Album
MAPS
Gucia’s Poland, 1916–September 1939
Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto
Basia’s Europe, September 1939–May 1945
Basia’s Europe, May 1945–Summer 1951
About the Authors
Copyright
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
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Copyright © 2018 by Planaria Price and Helen Reichmann West
Maps © 2018 by ElkingtonDesignWorks
All rights reserved
First hardcover edition, 2018
eBook edition, March 2018
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Names: Price, Planaria J., author. | West, Helen Reichmann, author.
Title: Claiming my place: coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust / Planaria Price; with Helen Reichmann West.
Description: First edition. | New York, NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2018
Identifiers: LCCN 2017023580 | ISBN 9780374305291 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Reichmann, Barbara, 1916–2007—Juvenile literature. | Jews—Poland—Piotrków Trybunalski—Biography—Juvenile literature. | Holocaust, Jewish (1939–1945)—Poland—Biography—Juvenile literature.
Classification: LCC DS134.72.R447 P75 2018 | DDC 940.53/18092 [B]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017023580
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