Let Me Tell You a Story
β Scribed by Calverley, Renata
- Book ID
- 110452141
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781620401507
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β¦ Synopsis
The spellbinding true story of a little girl's miraculous escape from the Nazis during the Second World War.
September, 1939. Przemysl, Poland. No one has explained to three-year-old Renatka what war is. She knows her Tatus, a doctor, is away with the Polish Army, that her beautiful Mamusia is no longer allowed to work at the university, and that their frequent visitors--among them Great Aunt Zuzia and Uncle Julek with their gifts of melon and clothes--have stopped appearing. One morning Mamusia comes home with little yellow six-pointed stars for them to wear. Renatka thinks they will keep her family safe.
In June of 1942, soldiers in gray-green uniforms take Renata, Mamusia, and grandmother Babcia to the Ghetto where they are crammed into one room with other frightened families. The adults are forced to work long hours at the factory and to survive on next to no food. One day Mamusia and Babcia do not return from their shifts...
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