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Chicago Lives : Men and Women Who Shaped Our City by James Janega; The Chicago Tribune is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Had it not been for a serendipitous letter passed between her neighbors, Zofia Kuklo might have been dismissed as just another fading, elderly widow, and it would have been a crime.She died on the Northwest Side as the twentieth century drew to a close, a quiet, churchgoing woman who’d become part of the Chicago landscape. Almost as secretive as she’d been in Poland during World War II, she blended into the immigrant neighborhood she lived in so completely that nobody in Chicago knew she’d once rescued more than a dozen Jews from the Holocaust. For years, she hid them in her barn. Perhaps from the long habit of keeping silent among Nazis, Mrs. Kuklo said little after the war, and even less after immigrating to the United States twenty years before her death in January 2001.Word reached her Chicago neighbors after a letter from one of the Holocaust survivors helped get Kuklo’s name memorialized in Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in 1994.When she was recognized, her exploits were a staggering revelation for local Polish and Jewish groups, for whom Kuklo became an instant icon. Her story was also one of those obituary-section discoveries for readers that shows the fine line tha
Who reads Chicago Lives : Men and Women Who Shaped Our City?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- James Janega; The Chicago Tribune
- Publisher
- Triumph Books
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781926824628
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, History, Biography