Language:
English
Pages:
284 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Edition:
1. edition
Year of publication:
2017
Abstract:
For eighteen months from late 1943, Sara Vidal’s parents, Basia and Heniek, hid in a small hole in the ground under a sawing machine in the backyard workshop of a retired Polish policeman in a suburb of occupied Warsaw. In claustrophobic dark, they waited while outside a world war raged. Their story is inspirational; it begins with life in Warsaw in loving families, transcends the catastrophic circumstances in which they meet, fall in love, are witness to the destruction of a way of life and the murder of their entire families, endure entombment, and concludes with rescue, liberation, and immigration to make a new life. This memoir, Bella and Chaim, is a a flowing collage which embraces and mingles memory, historical record, fragments of the 1950s, real-time journal entries and musings on the light, dark, and potential, of being alive. The whole is a testament to the human spirit.
URL:
https://www.hybridpublishers.com.au/product/bella-and-chaim/
