| Here, There Are No Sarahs: A Woman's Courageous Fight Against the Nazis and Her Bittersweet Fulfillment of the American Dream Contributor(s): Rosenbaum, Fred (Author), Orbuch, Sonia Shainwald (Author) |
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ISBN: 1571431306 ISBN-13: 9781571431301 Publisher: RDR Books OUR PRICE: $12.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2009 Annotation: Stripped of her name, 18 year-old "Sonia" Shainwald went to war without basic training, without equipment, without food or any of the essentials necessary to fight the German soldiers who used her native Poland as a proving ground on their way to conquer mother Russia. Urging her family and neighbors to leave a wretched hiding place during the liquidation of their Polish ghetto in 1942, she and her parents and uncle spent a brutal Winter in the Russian forests and then joined a Soviet partisan brigade, which fought back heroically against the Germans and Ukrainians. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Jewish - General - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - Biography & Autobiography | Military |
| Dewey: 940.531 |
| LCCN: 2008942832 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.70 lbs) 241 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Cultural Region - Russia |
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| Publisher Description: Stripped of her name, 18-year-old "Sonia" Shainwald went to war without basic training, without equipment, without food or any of the essentials necessary to fight the Germans. Urging her family and neighbors to leave a wretched hiding place during the liquidation of their ghetto, she and her parents and uncle spent a brutal winter in the forests and then joined a heroic Soviet partisan brigade. After the liberation, her family spent three years in a Displaced Persons camp near Frankfurt, and eventually reached America. But Sonia's life in her adopted land has been both tragic and triumphant."Here, There Are No Sarahs" is co-authored by Holocaust scholar Fred Rosenbaum whose "Taking Risks" (with former partisan Joseph Pell) was praised by the San Francisco Chronical as "so extraordinary that it transcends the genre." As they were completing their manuscript, Orbuch and Rosenbaum discovered that a trove of touching family correspondence written in the 1930s and 40s lay in a closet in Argentina. The letters, some in Sonia's own hand, were copied, sent to the Bay Area, and translated. Several are published in the book's appendix, along with love poetry penned in the forest in 1943. |