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Gruenbaum, Michael.
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Michael “Misha” Gruenbaum enjoyed a
carefree childhood playing games and taking walks through
Prague with his beloved father. All of that changed
forever when the Nazis invaded Prague. The Gruenbaum
family was forced to move into the Jewish Ghetto in
Prague. Then, after a devastating loss, Michael, his
mother and sister were deported to the Terezin
concentration camp. At Terezin, Misha roomed with forty
other boys who became like brothers to him. Life in
Terezin was a bizarre, surreal balance—some days were
filled with friendship and soccer matches, while others
brought mortal terror as the boys waited to hear the names
on each new list of who was being sent “to the East.”
Those trains were going to Auschwitz. When the day came
that his family’s name appeared on a transport list, their
survival called for a miracle—one that tied Michael’s fate
to a carefully sewn teddy bear, and to his mother’s
unshakeable determination to keep her children safe. (Vermont
DCF Book Award 2017) |
| SUBJECTS: Autobiographies. Gruenbaum, Michael. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jews -- Czech Republic -- Biography. Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) |
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