The Seamstress

by Sara Tuvel Bernstein

Edgar M Bronfman (Introduction)

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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, and managed to survive...she tells this story with style and power." —Kirkus Reviews
  • ISBN10 039914322X
  • ISBN13 9780399143229
  • Publish Date 13 October 1997
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Putnam Adult
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 353
  • Language English