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The light in hidden places : a novel based on the true story of Stefania Pódgorska / Sharon Cameron

By: Material type: TextTextEdition: First editionDescription: 377 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781338355932
  • 1338355937
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • FIC CAM
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.C1438 Li 2020
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podgórska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store in for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemsyl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) and only Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring for her younger sister, Helena, and keeping everything secret from the two Nazi officers who are living in her house
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Fiction MVS Library Main room-Teen/Adult A- Fiction (Teen/Adult) FIC CAM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 4007313

Based on the true story of Stefania Podgórska. Includes an author's note that outlines the later lives of Stefania, and the many of the other people who appear in the book

Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podgórska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store in for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemsyl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) and only Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring for her younger sister, Helena, and keeping everything secret from the two Nazi officers who are living in her house

Ages 12+. Scholastic Press

Grades 9 to 12. Scholastic Press

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