In Beneath the Lightless Sky, husband and father Ignacy Chiger (1906-1975) recounts his family’s desperate struggle to evade Nazi persecution in wartime Lvov, Poland, where they hid in the city’s underground sewers with the help of an unlikely hero.
    When the liquidation of the Lvov ghetto left the Chigers with no place to hide, they sought refuge beneath the city, disappearing into the filth and darkness of its sewer system. There, they survived for 14 months, clinging to life in unimaginable conditions.
     Deeply moving and historically significant, Beneath the Lightless Sky is an essential addition to Holocaust literature – a harrowing memoir of survival, resilience, and the unimaginable horrors of war.

In-Depth Discussion with Doron Keren / Moderated by Dana Arschin, HMTC

Doron Keren is the grandson of Ignacy Chiger and the son of Krystyna Chiger Keren, author of The Girl in the Green Sweater. Doron Keren is an active member of HMTC’s 2nd-generation survivor community and is responsible for unearthing his grandfather’s 1975 memoir. This years-long project ensures that his family’s legacy lives on and that his grandfather’s own words can be read by audiences over fifty years after they were first written.