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Janina Bauman - Winter in the Morning - 9780860686521 - V9780860686521
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Winter in the Morning

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Description for Winter in the Morning Paperback. Using her teenage diaries, the author tells of the horrors of the siege and surrender of Warsaw in 1939, the food shortages, raids and beatings, and the Nazi "Aktion" in 1942, when her family was hounded from shelter to shelter. In 1943 they escaped the ghetto but faced years in hiding. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 208 pages, Section: 8, b/w. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; BG; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 128 x 13. Weight in Grams: 258.

Janina Beauman was thirteen-years-old when Hitler's decree forced her family into the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw. The young, bright and lively girl suddenly found herself in a cramped flat hiding with other Jewish families. At first even curfews and the casual cruelty meted out by the German occupiers could not completely wipe out her passion for books, boys and romance, 'Perhaps we've been wasting the last bits of our lives not even trying to found out what life is?' Then came the raids and Janina, with her sister and mother, had to keep on the move to avoid being one ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
VMC
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780860686521
SKU
V9780860686521
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2

About Janina Bauman
Janina Lewinson-Bauman was born in 1926. The comfortable life she shared with her family in Warsaw was destroyed with the outbreak of the Second World War. She worked in Polish film as a translator, researcher and script editor. Bauman died in 2009.

Reviews for Winter in the Morning
A magnificent testimony to the people of the ghetto ... a profound autobiographical meditation
New Society
A deeply moving but surprisingly unselfpitying book, a real pleasure to read
TES
Absorbing...Testaments such as Janina Bauman's are important and should never be allowed to fade away
Margaret Forster
A profound and moving book which everyone ought ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Winter in the Morning


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