Grace in the Wilderness

After the Liberation 1945-1948

De: Aranka Siegal

Narrado por: Christina Moore

NCSS-CBC Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies

Fourteen-year-old Piri is a survivor of the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz–Birkenau. After six months of being in the camp, she and her sister are liberated and rescued by the Swedish Red Cross. Soon after, she travels with her sister, Iboya, to Sweden where she is adopted by a Jewish-Swedish family. Soon she falls in love with David, giving herself a hard decision. Who will she choose? The love of her life, or Iboya, the sister who guided her through life? Piri contends with growing up, making decisions for the future, the loss of her family, and the memories of being in the camp. At the age of eighteen, Piri leaves her adoptive family to sail to the United States with her sister. Once in New York City, Piri and Iboya are reunited with some of the members of their family where they begin life anew.

©1985 Aranka Siegal (P)1998 Recorded Books

A little slice of history in a well told way

A young Jewish girl in a concentration camp survive and thrives. It was most interesting to remember those times and how Palestine and the state of Israel came to be after gentle way in the view of a young girl who did survive and move to America.