THE GIRL IN THE CHECK COAT

Christine Winecki is a Holocaust child survivor. In her book she presentsthe story of her life, starting with the fond memories of her earlychildhood in south-eastern Poland, and then taking the reader through theturbulent years of the Second World War under Soviet and then Germanoccupation. She depicts also the story of her future husband Oton asurvivor of a labor camp in Siberia and their post-war life in Warsawuntil the infamous events in 1968, which forced them to leave Poland andemigrate to Australia. Apart from its biographical content the book isrich in observations on the historical, political, and ethnographicaspects of the changing settings of the author's unfolding story.