title: Cry Little Girl: A Tale of the Survival of Family in Slovakia
author: Aliza Barak-Ressler
description: ''A rare, fascinating story...Highly recommended.'' --Shulamit Geva, Ma'ariv, 20 April 2001
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  In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents
  of the Russian refugee camp she calls home, a young woman speaks her wedding
  vows. It’s a decision that will alter her destiny…and it’s a lie that will
  remain buried until the next century.
  
  
  Since she was nine years old, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best
  friend, Tomasz. Now fifteen and engaged, Alina is unconcerned by reports of
  Nazi soldiers at the Polish border, believing her neighbors that they pose no
  real threat, and dreams instead of the day Tomasz returns from college in
  Warsaw so they can be married. But little by little, injustice by brutal
  injustice, the Nazi occupation takes hold, and Alina’s tiny rural village, its
  families, are divided by fear and hate. Then, as the fabric of their lives is
  slowly picked apart, Tomasz disappears. Where Alina used to measure time
  between visits from her beloved, now she measures the spaces between hope and
  despair, waiting for word from T