The seamstress
a memoir of survival
by Sara Tuvel Bernstein, Louise Loots Thornton, Marlene bernst Samuels, Edgar M. Bronfman, and Marlene Bernstein Samuels
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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.
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The seamstress: a memoir of survival
1999, Berkley Books
in English
- Berkley trade paperback ed.
0425166309 9780425166307
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Includes index.
"A Berkley book / published by arrangement with G.P. Putnam's Sons"--T.p. verso.
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