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The Seamstress
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Start date
March 1, 2013
Finish date
March 31, 2013

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Stephanie
Apr 02, 2013 rated it really liked it
Shelves: bookclub, biography
I greatly enjoyed Seren's story. It was a very different Holocaust story than most I have read. I think most of us come to expect a certain...formula(for lack of a better word) when we pick up a WWII memoir. Although each survivor's story is unique, they do seem to blend together.

Seren's was different. Her unique voice and experience really touched me. Her personality and her determination to survive are undoubtedly what got her through horrible things. I was humbled and left in awe of the stren
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Heather
Apr 16, 2013 rated it really liked it
Shelves: cultural, memoir
This Holocaust memoir deserves to be read. Seren's story of being a Hungarian Jew during WWII does not follow the usual path or the usual telling. Her desire to live was so powerful that her story focuses on the ingenious ways she overcame all obstacles and saved herself and those closest to her. ...more
Lara Bone
Apr 18, 2013 rated it really liked it