Love in a world of sorrow : a teenage girl's Holocaust memoirs

This memoir of a girl from Skala Podolskala in the Ukraine details what can happen in the most extreme and dire of human circumstances. The unrelenting fear of death and gnawing pain of hunger led to acts of desperation among many who survived; some stole, others lied and schemed. Still others took comfort in intimate relationships that might be considered illicit or misguided in ordinary times. The author and her family were hidden by the efforts of a non-Jewish couple and a sympathetic Ukrainian militiaman at the risk of their own lives.