Clara's War
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*Clara's War* is a memoir by Clara Kramer and Stephen Glantz which tells Kramer's story of her life in Nazi occupied Poland, where she and several other Polish Jews spent 20 months hiding in a bunker beneath a house in the town of Zhovkva. The book was first published by Ebury Press (Penguin Random House) in 2008, in the United Kingdon. The first USA edition was published by Harper/Ecco on 2009.
Themes & subjects
JewsPersecutionsNonfictionWorld War, 1939-1945Biography & AutobiographyHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
First published 2008Characters & people
Setting
Żółkiew (Poland)Z︠H︡ovkva (Ukraine)United StatesPolandPolen (land)Pologne1900-1945
About the authors
Clara Kramer
1927 – 2018-09-11
Clara Schwarz Kramer (born Chaya Schwarz; April 9, 1927, Żółkiew, Poland – September 11, 2018, Elizabeth, New Jersey) was a Polish-American Holocaust survivor, author, and public speaker. She is best known for her wartime diary, which detailed her 20-month ordeal hiding from the Nazis and formed the basis of her memoir, *Clara's War.*
Stephen Glantz
1947
Stephen Glantz (Boston, Massachusetts, 1947) is an award-winning American screenwriter, author, and adjunct professor, best known for co-authoring the Holocaust survival memoir *Clara's War.* With a career spanning over 40 years, he has written for major studios in the United States, Europe, and Israel, specializing in historical dramas and World War II narratives.
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