Description
| Product ID: | 9780008665067 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Forbidden Daughter |
| Authors: | Author: Zipora Klein Jakob |
| Page Count: | 304 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: general, Autobiography: general, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, History, The Holocaust, Sociology: family and relationships, Political ideologies and movements, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, The Holocaust, Sociology: family & relationships, Political ideologies, Europe, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The unforgettable true story of one Jewish orphan’s survival against impossible odds, and her lifelong quest for family, safety and a sense of belonging. The unforgettable true story of one Jewish orphan’s survival against impossible odds, and her lifelong quest for family, safety and a sense of belonging.Elida Friedman was never supposed to have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade Jewish women from giving birth. Yet despite the danger they faced, Dr. Jonah Friedman and his wife Tzila, choose to bring a daughter into the world – a little girl they name Elida, meaning non-birth in Hebrew.To ensure her survival, the couple must smuggle their precious baby out of the ghetto into the arms of strangers. So begins a life of constant upheaval, with Elida changing families, countries, continents and even names, countless times. Surviving the war and the Holocaust that stole her parents, the young woman never gives up hope of finding a sense of family, and the chance to belong.A moving, powerful chronicle of overcoming impossible odds, The Forbidden Daughter is the true story of one unforgettable girl and her will to survive. |
| Imprint Name: | HQ |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-04-25 |
