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By Shlomo Breznitz(192 Pages)Publisher: Knopf
Caught in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust, Shlomo Breznitz and his family moved from village to village until it became clear that there was no escaping the Nazis. Before they were sent to Auschwitz, however, Breznitz's parents persuaded the Sisters of Saint Vincent to take their two recently converted children into the convent's orphanage. Shlomo called Juri was just six years old. In this poignant, gripping, and often terrifying memoir, the author recounts his experiences with the orphans, the nuns, his teacher and classmates at the village school, the prelate and the Mother Superior, and the Nazi officers who periodically visited the orphanage. He describes his overwhelming feelings of isolation and loneliness, his persistent dread of being found out as a "stinking Jew" (constantly hiding his circumcision), his earnest determination to be a good Catholic, and the crushing sense of danger that loomed over him at every moment.
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