Now 80, Felicia lives in Paris, married to the owner of a lingerie company. The most harrowing (and mini-series ready) story belongs to a child, Felicia, who is five months old when the novel begins in March 1939.īy war’s end she will have hidden in a sack of rags, waited trustingly while her mother dug their graves at a mass execution site, kept silent under a table watching the blood drain from a summarily executed hideaway, been dropped from a second-story window stuffed in a straw mattress and buried in the rubble of a bombed convent. Most acquire forged identification papers and fear being exposed as Jews. Another is deported to a Siberian labor camp, then fights with the Polish army in the battle of Monte Cassino in Italy. One of the siblings (the family name is Kurc) risks drowning in a freezing river. But the paths they took spanned five continents.”Īll lived under the threat of death and in the proximity of death, however. Readers may think, “Oh, a Polish Holocaust story. “That’s the wow factor of the book,” she says.
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