I AM SASHA

The incredible story of the author’s Polish-Jewish father, Sasha, who likely survived the war because of his mother Larissa’s courageous decision to dress him as a girl. The war had been raging for three years and young Sasha had witnessed terrible scenes on the streets of Lwow where they lived – women stripped naked, old men forced to clean gutters with a toothbrush. Boys were randomly told to drop their trousers - their circumcision revealing their Jewishness. Taught how to walk and talk as a girl, “Sala” was interrogated on her own by Ukranian police, but survived.