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The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival by Sara Tuval Bernstein is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival about?

"From its opening pages, in which she recounts her own premature birth, triggered by terrifying rumors of an incipient pogrom, Bernstein ' s tale is clearly not a typical memoir of the Holocaust. She was born into a large family in rural Romania...and grew up feisty and willing to fight back physically against anti-Semitism from other schoolchildren. She defied her father' s orders to turn down a scholarship that took her to Bucharest, and got herself expelled from that school when she responded to a priest/teacher's vicious diatribe against the Jews by hurling a bottle of ink at him...After a series of incidents that ranged from dramatic escapes to a year in a forced labor detachment, Sara ended up in Ravensbruck, a women' s concentration camp, and managed to survive...she tells this story with style and power." — Kirkus Reviews

Who reads The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Sara Tuval Bernstein
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Published
1999
Language
EN
ISBN
9781101663967
Category
history
Subjects
Memoir, Fiction, Historical Fiction
Rating
4.6 / 5 (449 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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