The Girl in the Red Coat: A Memoir Book

When she first saw Schindlers Listto whose premiere in Poland she was invitedRoma Ligocka suddenly realized Ahe was witnessing a part of her own life. She felt instinctively that the little girl in the red coatthe only spot of color in the filmwas her. When she had lived in the Krakow ghetto during World War II she had worn a strawberry-red coat ?iven to her by her grandmother. Unlike the girl in Spielbergs film, however, Roma survived the war. Startled by this eerie conjunction of art and reality, Ligocka determined to write the story of her own life, to find out what had become of the little girl, and to determine who she was now. From a harrowing childhood under the Nazis, described with a haunting simplicity and innocence, through the trials of living in Communist Poland, to a career in the theater and @ilm (an artistic struggle paralleling that of her cousin, Roman Polanski), Ligocka traces her struggle for self-definition and happiness. The Girl in the Red Coat is a courageous and moving story of survival and triumph.Read More