Book : The Seamstress - Bernstein, Sara Tuval

-Titulo Original : The Seamstress

-Fabricante :

Berkley

-Descripcion Original:

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/teachers 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. -Kirkus Reviews About the Author Sara Tuval Bernstein was born in Romania and attended school in Bucharest before being expelled after speaking out against anti-Semitism. She was liberated from the concentration camp Bergau by the Red Cross and then volunteered to teach sewing to fellow displaced women. She is known for her memoir The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival.