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East of the Storm: Outrunning the Holocaust in Russia
On September 27, 1939, after the Nazi invasion, Poland ceased to exist as a nation. Ten-year-old Hanna Davidson journey into the Soviet interior makes for an extraordinary story. More than a memoir of survival, their story is clearly one of a family whose spirit could not be destroyed by persecution, war, famine, or political oppression.
Paperback, 232 pages
Published
July 15th 2008
by Texas Tech University Press
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"East of the Storm" chronicles the life of a Jewish family in Poland as they flee farther and farther into Russia to escape the Nazis. It is very heartbreaking that even as they try to flee from being persecuted for being Jewish, they still encounter antisemitism in remote villages. One instant that really stuck with me was when Hanna was in a village in the USSR when a group of children came up to her and demanded to see her horns and tail which in their minds all Jewish people had. T...more
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