The May Beetles: My First Twenty Years
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The May Beetles: My First Twenty Years
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Full of love amid hatred, hope amid despair, The May Beetles is sure to touch your heart.
Baba Schwartz's story began before the Holocaust could have been imagined. As a spirited girl in a warm and loving Jewish family, she lived a normal life in a small town in eastern Hungary. In The May Beetles, Baba describes the innocence and excitement of her childhood, remembering her early years with verve and emotion.
But then unspeakable horror. Baba tells of the shattering of her family and their community from 1944, when the Germans transported the 3000 Jews of her town to Auschwitz. She lost her father to the gas chambers, yet she, her mother and her two sisters survived this concentration camp and several others to which they were transported as slave labour. They eventually escaped the final death march and were liberated by the advancing Russian army. But despite the suffering, Baba writes about this period with the same directness, freshness and honesty as she writes about her childhood.
Full of love amid hatred, hope amid despair, The May Beetles is sure to touch your heart.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781863958455
Publisher: Black Inc.
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 18 July 2016
Country: Australia
Imprint: Black Inc.
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 31.0mm
Width: 144.0mm
Height: 217.0mm
Weight: 580g
Pages: 294
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