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IrenaS Gift: An Epic Wwii Memoir Of Sisters, Secrets, And Survival
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A National Jewish Book Awards Finalistwinner, Zibby Awards For Best Family Drama & Best Story Of Overcomingweaving Mystery, History And Memoir, IrenaS Gift Is The Captivating Account Of One WomanS Personal Quest To Uncover The Unspoken And Give Voice To Her FamilyS Secret WarTorn History.From The Glittering Concert Halls Of Interbellum Warsaw To The VerminInfested Prison Where An Ss Officer Is Convinced To Save A Jewish ChildS Life, To The AuthorS Upbringing In A Christian Home, This Is A Story Of Resilience, Sacrifice, Jewish Identity, Intergenerational Trauma, And The Secrets We Keep To Protect Ourselves And Those We Love. For Readers Of When Time Stopped By Ariana Neumann, I Want You To Know WeRe Still Here By Esther Safran Foer, And House Of Glass By Hadley Freeman.IrenaS Gift Interrogates The Messy Complexity Of Family, Both Its Tenderness And Nurture But Also Its Corrosive Anger And Rejection. Geraldine Brooks, New York Times Bestselling Author And Pulitzer Prize WinnerIM Here To Find An Ss Officer, I Told The Muscled Man In Uniform Peering At Me Through The Sentry Window At The Berlin Archives.The Man Saved My Mother, I Added In German, Smiling At The Guard Almost Apologetically.In 1942, In GermanOccupied Poland, A Jewish Baby Girl Was Smuggled Out Of The Warsaw Ghetto In A Backpack. That Baby, Joasia, Knew Nothing About This Extraordinary Event Until She Was 32, When A Letter Arrived From A Stranger. She Also Learned That The Parents Who Raised Her Were Actually Her Aunt And Uncle. Joasia Kept This Knowledge Hidden From Her Own Daughter, KarenUntil An Innocent Question Unexpectedly Revealed The Truth.Determined To Understand The Generational Trauma That Cloaked Her Family In Silence, Her Own Origins, And To Help Heal Her MotherS Pain, Karen Set Out To Unearth Decades Of Secrets. Piecing Together A Hidden HistoryFrom The Glittering Days Of PreWar Poland To The LittleKnown Radom Prison, Where Of 500 Resistance Members Tortured, Only 10 Survived, Her Grandfather The Only Known Jewish OneKaren Finds Answers, Yet Not Easy Ones. As She Exposes Her FamilyS Saga Of Love And Betrayal, And The Astounding Negotiation With An Ss Officer Who Saved Her MotherS Life, Karen Must Reconcile The Complicated Truths Behind Human Behavior.IrenaS Gift Weaves Together A Mystery, History, And Memoir To Tell A Story Of Sacrifice, Impossible Choices, Impossible Odds, And The Way Trauma Reverberates Throughout Generations. Yet It Is Also A Story Of Resilience And Bravery, Revealing How Love And Hope, Too, Can Not Only Prevail Through The Worst Imaginable Circumstances, But Resonate Through Time.
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