Informazioni generali

Altri nomi: Liebling, Rominka
Data di nascita: 1938-11-13
Sesso: female
Nazionalità: Poland
Luogo di nascita: Kraków, Poland
Luogo di residenza: Krakow, Poland
Munich, Germany
Istruzione: Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, Poland
Attività lavorative: novelist
costume designer
painter
Holocaust survivor
set designer
autobiographer
Relazioni: Polanski, Roman (cousin)
Horowitz, Ryszard (friend)
Breve biografia: Roma Ligocka was born Rominka Liebling to a Jewish family in Krakow, Poland, a year before the start of World War II. During the Nazi Occupation of Poland, she and her parents were put into the Kraków Ghetto. Her father David Liebling was sent to the Płaszów forced labor camp and then to Auschwitz. Roma and her mother escaped via an underground passage when the ghetto was liquidated in 1943 by the Germans. Her mother obtained false I.D. papers and they hid with a Polish family. Her father survived World War II, but died a year later in a Russian prison. She spent time after the war with her cousin, Roman Polanski, who took her to the movies for the first time. She studied painting and scenic design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, and worked as a model and actress while developing a successful career as a set designer in theatre, film, and television. In 1965, she and her second husband, Jan Biczycki, left Poland for Germany, where she worked as a costume and set designer. She has written several novels and an autobiographical work, The Girl in the Red Coat (2003), inspired by Steven Spielberg's movie Schindler's List.

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The Girl in the Red Coat: A Memoir di Roma Ligocka

Interesting and sad(well she did survived but it was still sad in places)read about a girl who grew up in hiding during the WWII.

The blurb is a bit misleading though seeming to imply that the author was the basis for the girl in the movie "Schindlers list" wearing a red coat during the purging of the jewish ghetto. I have always found this scene so moving

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindler's_List#Girl_in_red

href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1VL-y9JHuI" rel="nofollow" target="_top">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1VL-y9JHuI

The author as a child wore a red coat as a child when she was in the ghetto but when watching the movie she recognized the red coat and the little girl it as a symbol of her own childhood.… (altro)

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Litrvixen | 4 altre recensioni | Jun 23, 2022 |

The Girl in the Red Coat di Roma Ligocka

This really should be a 3 star plus rating, but I really didn't love it. I think I heard too many good things about it before I read it, so I was a little disappointed.

I liked the character, and really liked the fact that you saw her journey through life, as compared to most books of this sort that kind of end right after the war. She comes into her own as an adult, and deals with things as a survivor of the war, which we get to see.

The writing about her being in the war, as a tiny child were very hard to take. Most of these things are hard to imagine and read about, but I think the fact that I was seeing through the eyes of a child made it so much more heartwrenching.

All in all, I'm glad I read the book, and I would be curious to know what happens after the story ends.… (altro)

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E.J | 4 altre recensioni | Apr 3, 2013 |

La Petite Fille au manteau rouge di Roma Ligocka

J'ai adorer cette histoire, bien que je l'ai lue il y a 2 ans (quand j'avais 9 ans) ;

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Yumeea | 4 altre recensioni | Jun 19, 2010 |

The Girl in the Red Coat di Roma Ligocka

As a witness and survivor of the Shoah, Roma Ligocka's biography is not my first choice in providing a true picture of having endured that hell. I remember watching Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List and the little girl in the red coat stood out wandering alone and overlooked by the Nazi troops.It was a compelling picture! When I saw the title of this memoir I knew I had to read it. However, her childhood memories appear too perfect, too knowing, too detailed for a child of such a tender age. For me, this level of recall for a child felt contrived and detracted from a testimony that needs to be heard again and again. Roma's life is revealed to us from the Krakow ghetto, through Comunist Poland and eventually to becoming a wife, mother and struggling artist. All in all this 'novel' like memoir is a worth the time to read but it is not the most compelling testimony available. There is a degree of vanity and self centeredness that is out of place in such a harrowing time. A much better memoir would be found in Eli Wiesel's Night or Dawn or in Ann Ornstein's My Mother's Eyes: Holocaust Memories of a Young Girl.… (altro)