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The Seamstress
The Seamstress | Sara Tuval Bernstein
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"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/teacher' s 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, Aand? managed to survive?she tells this story with style and power." --Kirkus Reviews
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Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival | Sara Tuvel Bernstein
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“One of the American soldiers was carrying me. I closed my eyes again. ‘Is it raining again?‘ I thought. ‘No, we‘re inside now where it would not rain.‘ Then I realized that the soldier carrying me was crying, his tears falling on my face.” #feels #litsypassport

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Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival | Sara Tuvel Bernstein
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I‘ve picked some difficult books for #litsypassport, but this one might make me tear up.

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Sasha728
The Seamstress | Sara Tuval Bernstein
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I listened to this on my commute to and from work. The narrator did a great job with the accents and pacing. It's hard to say that you enjoyed such a book. I found it very thought provoking and I was consistently amazed at the horrors humans can impose on each other. Sara was an amazing woman and I'm so glad I was able to hear her story. #audiobook #thereadingwomen #holocaustsurvivor #memoir

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Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival | Sara Tuvel Bernstein
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New audio book for my work commute. So far so good.