Obvious but fair warning: you will also be sad. I am very impressed, and I am glad that she captured so well the history of her aunt and the survivors of the Lodz ghetto.
Jennifer Roy did a great job on this novel. Jennifer Roy also includes a helpful WWII timeline at the end of the novel. The story is especially sweet because Jennifer Roy is the niece of Syvia, so she knows many of the people she wrote about. I won't give away who lives and who dies.you'll have to read it to find out! Jennifer Roy's Author's Note at the end of the novel gives a detailed account of what happened to the story's main characters. He is a beautiful (real!) character, and he is reason enough to read this book. He impressed me with his quick thinking, firm loyalty to his family, levelheadedness, and ability to outsmart the Nazis. Her father played a huge part in her survival. I knew it was a true story, so I knew Syvia survived, but I was amazed again and again at how she survived. Of those who survived, only twelve were children. At the end of the war, there were about 800 survivors. As the war progressed, 270,000 people were forced to settle in the ghetto under impossible conditions. In 1939, the Germans invaded the town of Lodz, Poland, and moved the Jewish population into a small part of the city called a ghetto. This is the true story of a Holocaust survivor.
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