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| Title | : | The Seamstress |
| Author | : | Sara Tuvel Bernstein |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 384 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 1999 by Berkley (first published October 13th 1997) |
| Categories | : | World War II. Holocaust. Nonfiction. History. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. War |
Sara Tuvel Bernstein
Paperback | Pages: 384 pages Rating: 4.12 | 6809 Users | 538 Reviews
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"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 ReviewsIdentify Books Concering The Seamstress
| Original Title: | The Seamstress |
| ISBN: | 0425166309 (ISBN13: 9780425166307) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Romania |
| Literary Awards: | Audie Award for Biography/Memoir (2013) |
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Ratings: 4.12 From 6809 Users | 538 ReviewsArticle Out Of Books The Seamstress
Finished. A very good holocaust book, different from others maybe because you follow the main character from her youth. You follow Seren through many years. She is feisty! It is also very interesting to know that Sara did not tell the author everything. The missing bits are revealing. The reader knows of them because Seren's daughter has added more information and interesting comments about what it is like to be the daughter of two parents who have survived the holocaust. Through page 273 -This was fascinating. It told the story of the Nazi invasion of Romania which I knew very little about - gypsies and such. The horrors were much like western Europe endured, but the cultural background was an interesting historical point. This amazing Romanian Jew survived, and emigrated after the war. One of her last comments really stayed with me, about how as much as you try not to let the Holocaust define you, its effects are something you live with forever, and people have no idea of the
Bernstein does an immaculate job in describing her pain and suffering as she slowly watched her family and loved ones around her disappear into that is the Holocaust. Acting as her companions' "rock", and sometimes acting as her own, she is that extra lifeline they needed to survive. 5 solid stars.
This book is frustrating me and making me angry. I want to throw it at the ghostwriter for elevating herself to co-author and giving her opinion and thoughts constantly. You aren't interesting, your thoughts aren't relevant. I wanted to read the biography of Sara Bernstein who survived, one of very few, the women's concentration camp in Ravensbruk.The constant reminders from a woman who should have taken a back seat as the ghostwriter that her input is Important, and that she needs to tell us
This book follows Seren Tuvel throughout her life. This starts when she is a young girl in Transylvania and follows her through labor camps, imprisonment, concentration camps, and the rest of her life. This book is....wow. I have read many memoirs of WWII. I have been to the Holocaust museum in Detroit, MI to hear a speaker tell her tail. Of course I learned what they taught in history. We all have been taught of the horrid Auschwitz and the crematoriums. After reading this book I now know the
Another holocaust memoir, but this one takes place in Romania and Hungary. Seren Tuvel entered a force labor camp in the middle of 1944 and was then sent to Ravensbruck, a camp for women only. Ravensbruck was one of the worst camps during WWII. Seren was sent there to die, but survived. Even though she was sent there towards the end of the war, when the war was over, she weighed only 44 pounds. I enjoyed this memoir because it took place in Romania, and not Germany. Not knowing much about
Think of all the problems and stress in our lives. Just when we think that life today is "tough", think again...The Seamstress is the amazing memoir of Seren (Sara) Tuvel, a holocaust survivor. When originally interviewed for her story, she merely referred to her life spent in the concentration camps as a "waste of time". This just gives you an idea of what a remarkable woman she was, with an incredible strength of character. In all senses, she was a "true" survivor.Her story begins in
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