HEARTBREAKING, HEART-LIFTING TRUE STORY FROM THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE “IN DARKNESS,” FROM ACCLAIMED DIRECTOR AGNIESZKA HOLLAND - OFFICIAL 2012 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into ghettos and facing extermination, a group of Polish Jews daringly sought refuge in the city's sewer system. The last surviving member of this group, Krystyna Chiger, shares one of the most intimate, harrowing and ultimately triumphant tales of survival to emerge from the Holocaust. The Girl in the Green Sweater is Chiger's haunting first-person account of the fourteen months she spent with her family in the fetid, underground sewers of Lvov.

At the heart of Chiger’s story is the story of Leopold Socha, the group's unlikely savior. A Polish Catholic and former thief, Socha risked his life to help Chiger's underground family survive, bringing them food, medicine, and supplies. A moving memoir of a desperate escape and life under unimaginable circumstances, The Girl in the Green Sweater is ultimately a tale of intimate survival, friendship, and redemption.

“Despite the substantial number of Holocaust memoirs that have been published, The Girl in the Green Sweater manages to touch us in an unexpected way, revealing highs and lows and man’s capacity for evil, as well as his capacity to love life and other human beings. Through the eyes of the child that Krystyna Chiger was in Lvov, Poland in 1939 we see the whole moral universe.” - Naomi Rogen, author of “The Covenant”