![]() ![]() Then they were arrested by the NKVD and resettled eastward. Their lives then continued in Rio de Janeiro.Īfter the fall of Poland, Genek and his wife, Herta, moved from Radom, occupied by Nazi Germany, to Lvov, held by the Soviet Union. After that, they hid in the crawlspace of another family's house until the end of the war. They were ejected from their house and lived in the ghetto until it was liquidated. Sol and Nechuma remained in the Radom area throughout the war. They were aware of the threat of war, but not particularly worried. In 1939, they celebrated a holiday together, except for Addy. ![]() As they struggled to survive, the story switches among the various threads, always linked by their sense of togetherness as a family. They were members of the Jewish community and had a comfortable, stable and productive life within the larger population. The novel begins in the spring of 1939 and tells the events from 1939 to 1947 by following, mostly chronologically, the members of the Kurc family of Radom, Poland.
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