Mala's Cat: Mala Kacenberg

About the book

Mala's Cat by Mala Kacenberg is an autobiography for adult readers.

A remarkable holocaust memoir about an unlikely friendship between a young girl and a stray cat and survival against the odds Alone in a forest with only a cat for company, this is the deeply moving true story of one little girl's remarkable survival in the shadow of the Holocaust. Twelve-year-old Mala Szorer has no choice but to give up her childhood.

In return she stands a chance of survival and so, she decides to walk tall, towards freedom, towards life. Growing up in the Polish village of Tarnogrod on the fringes of a deep pine forest, gives Mala the happiest childhood she could have hoped for. But, as the German invasion begins, her beloved village becomes a ghetto and her family and friends reduced to starvation, she takes matters into her own hands, bravely removes her yellow star and sneaks out to the surrounding villages to barter for food.

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