Grace in the Wilderness, Aranka Siegal
Grace in the Wilderness, Aranka Siegal
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Grace in the Wilderness
After the Liberation 1945-1948

Author: Aranka Siegal

Narrator: Christina Moore

Unabridged: 6 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/30/2012

Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carolyn

This is a holocaust story. This is a young adult book, and this is the last book I read for 2020. This story is about Hungary sisters. She tells a powerful, moving, graphic and takes a lot of courage and endurance ever I read, and I couldn’t put down in a day. This is another Piri was only 14 years......more

Goodreads review by Leslie

This sequel to UPON THE HEAD OF THE GOAT is more suited to mid-teens and older, as the Grace struggles with her maturity and developing sexuality in the years after the war. Although Grace struggles in ways that are unique to someone who has experienced the traumatic experience of war and holocaust,......more

Goodreads review by Doris

I felt this book was just so-so. Perhaps if I had read the author's previous book about Piri and Iboya's family in Hungary I would have understood this book better. There were so many characters I could not keep track of them. I thought it was really nice that the Swedish people took in the refugees......more

Goodreads review by Mary

This is the story of two sisters who survived Bergen-Belsen and were on their way to finding a new life for themselves. I didn't like the ending because we don't really know what happened. They are on a ship (at the end) almost to America. You can hope that Piri found out what love is and lives happ......more

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