The seamstress : a memoir of survival
(Audiobook)
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Published
[Old Saybrook, CT] : Tantor Media, 2011, c1997.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
2 MP3-CD sound discs (13 hrs) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Status
Moab Library - Adult Audio-Visual
MP3-CD 92 BERNSTEI
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MP3-CD 92 BERNSTEI
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Published
[Old Saybrook, CT] : Tantor Media, 2011, c1997.
Format
Audiobook
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Unabridged.
General Note
MP3-CD compact discs.
General Note
iPod ready.
Participants/Performers
Read by Wanda McCaddon.
Description
A striking Holocaust memoir, posthumously published, by a Romanian Jew with an unusual story to tell. 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 between the wars 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. Ashamed to return home after her expulsion, she looked for work in Bucharest and discovered a talent for dressmaking. That talent--and her blond hair, blue eyes, and overall Gentile appearance--allowed her entry into the highest reaches of Romanian society, albeit as a dressmaker. Bernstein recounts the growing shadow of the native fascist movement, the Iron Guard, a rising tide of anti-Semitic laws, and finally, the open persecution of Romania's Jews. 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 deep in Germany. Nineteen out of every twenty women transported there died. The author, her sister Esther, and two other friends banded together and, largely due to Sara's extraordinary street smarts and intuition, managed to survive.
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MP3-CD disc. System requirements: CD/MP3 player or PC with MP3-capable software.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Bernstein, S. T., Thornton, L. L., Samuels, M. B., Bronfman, E. M., & McCaddon, W. (20111997). The seamstress: a memoir of survival (Unabridged.). Tantor Media.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sara Tuvel Bernstein et al.. 20111997. The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival. Tantor Media.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sara Tuvel Bernstein et al.. The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival Tantor Media, 20111997.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Bernstein, Sara Tuvel, et al. The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival Unabridged., Tantor Media, 20111997.
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