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Sydelle Pearl

Wordwings (142) (Essential Prose Series)

Guernica Editions (Sep 01, 2017)

9781771831963

| Paperback

170 pages | 127 x 203 mm | English

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Dewey 813/.6

LC Classification PS3616.E2525 .W67 2017

Genre

Historical Fiction

Subject

Getto Warszawskie (Warsaw, Poland) - Fiction
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Fiction. - Poland
Jews - Fiction. - Poland
Poland - History - Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 - Fiction. - Poland

Plot

In 1941, 12-year-old Rivka Rosenfeld lives in the Warsaw Ghetto with her grandfather and two sisters in a synagogue because housing is scarce. When German soldiers slash her grandfather's beard, Rivka is compelled to write in between the pages of a library book by Hans Christian Andersen. Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum, founder of the Underground Archive--a compilation of Warsaw Ghetto experiences, asks her to contribute her stories to the archives and Rivka agrees, imagining her words rising up from the ground on wings of their own.