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From Kirkus Reviews ,
September 1, 1998
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haunting look back by Lobel, a Polish Jew who ``was born far, far away, on a
bloody continent at a terrible time.'' Lobel writes of her life as a young girl,
who ``was barely five years old when the war began.'' She and her three-year-old
brother did not understand when her ather disappeared in 1939 (to Russia, she
later learned), but very soon they understood the words ``transported, deported,
concentration camp and liquidation.'' Taken from a Benedictine convent that
sheltered Jewish children,
Lobel and her brother (by then, ten and eight) were
first in Montelupi Prison, then in Ravensbro ck, where they were sick with lice,
diarrhea, and tuberculosis. They were rescued and sent to Sweden to regain their
health and eventually to be united with their parents. This is an inexpressibly
sad book about a young girl who missed her childhood, yet survived to say that
her life ``has been good. I want more.'' (b&w photos, not seen) (Memoir.
10-14) -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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haunting look back by Lobel, a Polish Jew who ``was born far, far away, on a
bloody continent at a terrible time.'' Lobel writes of her life as a young girl,
who ``was barely five years old when the war began.'' She and her three-year-old
brother did not understand when her ather disappeared in 1939 (to Russia, she
later learned), but very soon they understood the words ``transported, deported,
concentration camp and liquidation.'' Taken from a Benedictine convent that
sheltered Jewish children,
Lobel and her brother (by then, ten and eight) were
first in Montelupi Prison, then in Ravensbro ck, where they were sick with lice,
diarrhea, and tuberculosis. They were rescued and sent to Sweden to regain their
health and eventually to be united with their parents. This is an inexpressibly
sad book about a young girl who missed her childhood, yet survived to say that
her life ``has been good. I want more.'' (b&w photos, not seen) (Memoir.
10-14) -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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