The light in hidden places, a novel based on the true story of Stefania Podgórska, Sharon Cameron
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The light in hidden places, a novel based on the true story of Stefania Podgórska, Sharon Cameron
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The light in hidden places
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Sharon Cameron
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a novel based on the true story of Stefania Podgórska
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It is 1943, and for four years, sixteen-year-old Stefania has been working for the Diamant family in their grocery store in Przemsyl, Poland. She has even made a promise to one of their sons, Izio a betrothal they must keep secret since she is Catholic and the Diamants are Jewish. But everything changes when the German army invades Przemsyl. The Diamants are forced into the ghetto, and Stefania is alone in an occupied city, the only one left to care for Helena, her six-year-old sister. And then comes the knock at the door. Izio's brother Max has jumped from the train headed to a death camp. She must make the extraordinary decision to hide Max, and eventually twelve more Jews. Then they wait, every day, for the next knock at the door, the one that will mean death. When the knock finally comes, it is two Nazi officers, requisitioning Stefania's house for the German army. With two Nazis below, and thirteen hidden Jews above, Stefania has one more excruciating choice to make
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- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Fiction -- Compact disc
- Audiobooks
- South Carolina Book Award nominee -- 2021-2022 -- Compact disc
- Burzminski, Stefania Podgórska -- Fiction -- Compact disc
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland -- Fiction -- Compact disc
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Fiction -- Compact disc
- Jews -- Poland -- Przemyśl -- Fiction -- Compact disc
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