Book
My mother's secret : based on a true holocaust story
Call Number
- FICTION WITT (EAS)
Edition
Berkley trade paperback edition.
Publication Information
New York : Berkley Books, 2014.
Physical Description
195 pages ; 21 cm
Summary
"Based on a true story, MY MOTHER'S SECRET is an uplifting tale intertwining the lives of two Jewish families in hiding from the Nazis, a fleeing German soldier, and the clever and 'righteous' mother and daughter who teamed up to save them. Franciszka and her daughter, Helena, are unlikely heroines. They are simple people who mind their own business and don't stand out from the crowd. Until 1939, when crisis strikes. The Nazis have invaded Poland and they are starting to persecute the Jews. Providing shelter to a Jew has become a death sentence. And yet, Franciszka and Helena decide to do just that. In their tiny, two-bedroom home in Sokal, Poland, they cleverly hide a Jewish family of two brothers and their wives in their pigsty out back, a Jewish doctor with his wife and son in a makeshift cellar under the kitchen floorboards, and a defecting German soldier in the attic--each group completely unbeknownst to the others. For everyone to survive, Franciszka will have to outsmart her neighbors and the German commanders standing guard right outside her yard."--Provided by publisher.
Notes
Reader's guide included.