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English
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It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships threatening Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable and the Kurcs will be flung to the far corners of the world, each desperately...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
It tells the true-life story of Sara Goralnik, a thirteen-year-old Polish Jew whose entire family was killed by Nazis in September 1942. After a grueling escape to the Ukrainian countryside, Sara Steals her Christian best friend's identity and finds refuge in a small village, where she is taken in by a farmer and his young wife. She soon discovers the dark secrets of her employers' marriage, compounding her own greatest secret that she must strive...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"An extraordinary and literary "love story" between a young mother and a much older Holocaust survivor that celebrates the unique and powerful bonds of friendship. It explores a complex relationship with someone from a different generation and socioeconomic background, and someone who happened to be one of the last surviving Holocaust witnesses of our time"--Publisher's summary.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A New York Times bestselling author traces her father's life from turn-of-the-century Warsaw to bustling New York City in an intimate memoir about family, memory, and the stories we tell. Long before she was the acclaimed author of a groundbreaking book about women and men, and praised by Oliver Sacks as having "a novelist's ear for the way people speak," Deborah Tannen was a little girl who adored her father. Though he was often absent during her...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships threatening Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable, and the Kurcs will be flung to the far corners of the world, each desperately...
Author
Series
Captives of the Reich volume 05
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
"Young Polish woman Hanna and her family have mostly stayed out of trouble during the Nazi occupation, but when she and her brother, Adam, hear regular screams in the night coming from a nearby forest, they venture out to investigate despite the risk, and what they discover changes them forever"--Title verso page.
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