In fourth grade, in 1970, our teacher read us a chapter book about a girl in a concentration or refugee camp or impoverished village. I remember descriptions of the harsh conditions and an episode where she knit a sweater for a woman in exchange for a cow. The sweater didn’t fit because the woman gained weight from drinking the milk and the girl had to redo the sweater.
Would love to know this book!
The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig