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Frozen Mud and Red Ribbons - A Romanian Jewish Girls Survival through the Holocaust in Transnistria and its Rippling Effect on the Second Generation (Paperback)
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Frozen Mud and Red Ribbons - A Romanian Jewish Girls Survival through the Holocaust in Transnistria and its Rippling Effect on the Second Generation (Paperback)
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When Sophica was abruptly separated from her father as a toddler,
she found a haven in Grandmother Gitte. But one sunny day in July,
when she was six years old, gendarmes marching and shouting in the
streets stopped her dreamy childhood and her hopes to go to school
and to be a big girl like her sister. She was deported together
with her mother and the whole of the Jewish community of Mihaileni,
Romania. On foot, through icy fields, they arrived in eastern
Ukraine, a strip of land called Transnistria. Death, illness,
brutality, shame, became her daily scenes. Sophica suffered hunger
and fear but kept her hopes and sanity, albeit losing her sister
and her father and witnessing her mother being viciously attacked.
She survived Typhus and starvation by being strong and quiet.
Herman was a jolly little boy who didnt care much needing to wear
the yellow star and being forbidden from school. He continued
playing outside with his friends while his father and brother were
sent to a labor camp. At the age of 14, when the Second World War
ended, he joined a Jewish youth movement and embarked on a ship to
the Promised Land. However, their journey was interrupted and they
were taken to a British detention camp in Cyprus. Sophica and
Herman were given new names, Shulamit and Tzvi. They met and made a
home in Israel. Shulamit/Sophica never mentioned her sad childhood,
but the essence of the past found its ways out. Sixty-five years
after those events, her daughter comes across a family secret and
starts asking questions, inducing Shulamit to break her silence and
become again the frightened little Sophica. This book tells her
moving childhood story.
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