Anya Author:Susan Fromberg Schaeffer They were well-to-do Russian Jews living in Poland, in a world more like Tolstoy's than our own, a world of piano lessons, elaborate meals, and storytelling, a world swept away in the firestorm of the Holocaust. — Through memory, Anya brings this world back to life, room by room, street by street -- the life of the cities, the country dachas,... more » vacations and medical schools, fancy dress balls, marriages and births. And death. From the sudden shock of the first bombing of Warsaw, the violence unleashed by Nazis swelled to a flood of destruction and despair. Bewildered and numbed, the Jewish community struggled with the growing nightmare. With cold, raw audacity, Anya runs, hides, and fights to save herself and her child.
"Lucky in everything but her mind," Anya survives, only to find that, as time passes, the wounds grow deeper. And now it takes an act of courage to remember just how it was.« less
This was a great story, but the author's writing style seemed a little 'scattered' sometimes. I found I had to read some pages twice. I liked that it was written in first person; but the events were sometimes difficult to follow.