As a child in German-occupied Poland, Roma Ligocka was known for
the bright strawberry-red coat she wore against a tide of gathering
darkness. Fifty years later, Roma, an artist living in Germany,
attended a screening of Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, and
instantly knew that “the girl in the red coat”—the only splash of
color in the film—was her. Thus began a harrowing journey into the
past, as Roma Ligocka sought to reclaim her life and put together
the pieces of a shattered childhood.
The result is this remarkable memoir, a fifty-year chronicle of
survival and its aftermath. With brutal honesty, Ligocka recollects
a childhood at the heart of evil: the flashing black boots, the
sudden executions, her mother weeping, her father vanished…then her
own harrowing escape and the strange twists of fate that allowed
her to live on into the haunted years after the war. Powerful,
lyrical, and unique among Holocaust memoirs, The Girl in the Red
Coat eloquently explores the power of evil to twist our lives
long after we have survived it. It is a story for anyone who has
ever known the darkness of an unbearable past—and searched for the
courage to move forward into the light.
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