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323 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits.
Summary: Based on real events of one Jewish boy's experiences escaping detection in wartime Poland. How do you try and forget things that change your life forever? Can you? Can you ever forget? I don't think you can. I thought of all the details of our apartment in Lwow. I remember sobbing for ages the day I had to wear a dress for the first time. The dress saved my life. Soldiers stop young boys and pull down their trousers to see if they are circumcised. Many are hauled off to camps or shot. To prevent Sasha being discovered, his mother turns her 12-year-old son into a girl, Sala. Clothes, voice hair, manners - all must be transformed.