false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173323804m/273737.jpg 273737 3 From its opening pages, in which she recounts her own premature birth, triggered by terrifying rumors of an incipient pogrom, <i>Sara Tuvel Bernstein's</i> tale is clearly not a typical memoir of the Holocaust. She was born into a large family in rural Romania between the wars 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. Ashamed to return home after her expulsion, she looked for work in Bucharest and discovered a talent for dressmaking. That talent- and her overall Gentile appearance- allowed her entry into the highest reaches of Romanian society. 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. 265427 1 5 1999 The Seamstress total:166|5:75|4:73|3:16|2:2|1:0| 166 719 279 35 3 0 false false Tue May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 22:21:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 22:41:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jul 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 14:04:58 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 15:19:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Feb 15 11:18:56 -0800 2009 Thu Jul 02 23:39:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon May 26 09:08:34 -0700 2008 Sat Jan 31 00:48:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 10:25:17 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 13:44:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Apr 27 11:12:12 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 11:15:13 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 10:49:45 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 11 14:44:16 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 06:49:39 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 14:09:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 23 18:52:23 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 18:53:06 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Jan 17 21:47:59 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 21:48:43 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 17:13:53 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 17:14:38 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Jul 26 13:04:59 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 13:05:25 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Sun Jun 21 17:36:37 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 17:38:15 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Mon Apr 13 23:42:19 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 23:42:51 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 03 09:14:52 -0800 2007 Mon Feb 25 14:17:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 28 06:48:22 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 04 08:07:45 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jun 04 08:24:21 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 07:15:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Jan 29 07:41:53 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 29 08:03:05 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 18 06:32:59 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 11 07:42:39 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Tue Jun 03 14:26:48 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 14:28:06 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=273737