The Girl in the Red Coat

“This poignant [Holocaust memoir] does honor to all children bewildered by horror and injustice.” —Thomas Keneally, author of  Schindler’s List   When she first saw Schindler's List—to whose premiere in Germany she was invited—Roma Ligocka suddenly realized she was witnessing a part of her own life. She felt instinctively that the little girl in the red coat—the only spot of color in the film—was her. When she had lived in the Krakow ghetto during the Second World War she had worn