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Kramer was a teenager when the Nazis invaded the Polish town of Zolkiew in World War II. Her moving testimony of survival is based on journals she kept during the 18-month period when she and 17 other Polish Jews secretly hid in a shallow dirt bunker underneath a neighboring couple's home. Kramer's memoir grippingly details the families' miserable daily living conditions, individual and collective fears, as well as, dangerous, close encounters with death. Clara's War, illustrating the harsh truths of survival, is profound and utterly compelling.