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"Paula's Window: Papa, the Bielski Partisans, and A Life Unexpected is the gripping Holocaust memoir of a Jewish girls waking nightmare in a world gone mad and hope regained in the ashes. Artist Paula Burgers carefree childhood in Novogrudek, Poland, exploded when the Nazis occupied the town in July of 1941. Paula and her family evaded the round ups and executions of thousands of Jews until 1942, when they were discovered by the Germans and forced inside the ghetto, a holding pen of death. Her father eventually escaped and joined the Bielski Partisans in the Naliboki Forest, where he planned to bring his family. One of their neighbors got wind of his activities and informed on him to the Nazis. Unable to locate Paulas father, the Nazis took her mother away and interrogated her at official headquarters. She told them her husband had disappeared, and denied having children. The Nazis arrested her. Six weeks later, on Yom Kippur, 1942, she was killed. Paula never had a chance to say goodbye. As soon as Paulas father learned of his wifes fate, he realized his daughter and son were next. He arranged to smuggle them out of the ghetto and brought them to their new home with the Bielski Pa

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Author

Burger, Paula, Jacobs, Andrea

Publisher

Tattered Cover Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781938859472

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

4.18 / 5 (22 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14