The Seamstress
of Sara Tuvel Bernstein, Louise Loots Thornton (Contributor), Marlene Bernstein Samuels (Contributor)
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"From its opening pages, in which she recounts her own premature birth, triggered by terrifying rumors of an incipient pogrom, Bernstein's tale is clearly not a typical memoir of the Holocaust. She was born into a large family in rural Romania and grew up feisty and willing to fight back physically against anti-Semitism from other schoolchildren. She defied her father's orders to turn down a scholarship that took her to Bucharest, and got herself expelled from that school when she responded to a priest/teacher's vicious diatribe against the Jews by hurling a bottle of ink at him. After a series of incidents that ranged from dramatic escapes to a year in a forced labor detachment, Sara ended up in Ravensbruck, a women's concentration camp, and managed to survive. She tells this story with style and power." --Kirkus Reviews
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384 pages
- Publisher Berkley
- Publication Date May 1st 1999
- First Publication 10/13/97
- Language English
- ISBN 9780425166307
- Edition Not informed
- Category History & Politics
- Scenario ['Romania']
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