I Went to Kindergarten in Casablanca

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Memoir of Survival Resilience and the Journey of a Lifetime</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As enemy warplanes roared overhead and bombs fell on the city of Liège nearly five-year-old Gilda's childhood ended with a suitcase a train ticket and a mother's desperate plea to flee. So begins a sweeping true story that spans continents and decades-from a harrowing escape across war-torn Europe to an unexpected new life in sun-drenched Casablanca and eventually to the promise of America.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In this rich and moving memoir Gilda Zirinsky retraces her extraordinary journey as a Jewish child refugee during World War II. Through vivid memories and family history she recounts scenes of narrow escapes lost homelands and acts of courage and compassion-from a French captain who risked his life to save hundreds to a tenacious mother who refused to give up hope.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Told with warmth humor and deep humanity I Went to Kindergarten in Casablanca is more than a tale of survival-it is a celebration of family love and the enduring strength of the human spirit.</span></p><p></p><p></p>