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The memoir of a young Jewish girl growing up in a Polish farm village, from the peaceful early 1930s through the tragic war years, and finding safe harbor at last. Portrays through text and paintings, Jewish life in her village, her family, and the people among whom they lived, Jewish and Catholic, and how Jewish customs and holidays were observed. No library descriptions found. |
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In the first four chapters Fluek shows her family, Sabbath preparations, how they celebrated holidays and her family's neighbors. The second half of the book details the Russian and consequent German occupation and the eventual liberation. In the years covered here Fluek suffered from hunger, cold, loneliness, fear and by the end of the war she lost most of her family. The style of writing and painting did not change form the first half, thus the dissimilarity of the subject matter is providing sharp contrast. If you are ready to encounter the author's personal recollection of the Shoah do not skip the second half of the book. But, if you only want to submerge to Jewish life in a small Polish village life I recommend reading and looking through the first half.