The light in hidden places

Title
The light in hidden places

Personal Author EPSB
Sharon, Cameron

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.

Year Published
2020

Physical Description
377 pages; 21 cm

Note (Local)
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.

Personal Subject
Burzminski, Stefania Podgórska-Fiction.

Subject
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Fiction.
 
Jews -- Poland -- Przemyśl -- Fiction.
 
Holocaust, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
 
World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland -- Fiction.

Geographic Term
Przemyśl (Poland) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
 
Poland -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

Genre
Historical fiction.

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.

ISBN
9781338355949
 
9781338573305

Publisher
[New York, NY] : Scholastic Inc., 2020.
 
©2020


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
Edmonton Christian HighFIC CAMBook30905000120786Fiction