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It's always disturbing reading survivors' stories of the holocaust. The story starts from the mid 30s during Hitler's rise to power and the increasing hostility towards the Jewish people in Poland. It starts out slowly but picks up. There are a lot of characters in this book and it was hard to keep track of who was who. A family tree at the beginning would have been helpful. I found myself losing track of who was married to whom, who was a sibling, and who was who. This book reminds the reader of the sense of horror about the treatment of the Jewish populations across Europe during WWII. Though the theme is about the brutality of the era, it is also the triumph of the human spirit against adversity and the courageous risks people took to help the persecuted.

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