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Mother and Me - Escape from Warsaw 1939 (Paperback)
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Mother and Me - Escape from Warsaw 1939 (Paperback)
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In 1939, Julian Padowicz says, "I was a Polish Jew-hater. Under
different circumstances my story might have been one of denouncing
Jews to the Gestapo, or worse. As it happened, I was a Jew myself,
and I was seven years old." Julian's mother was a spoiled beauty, a
Warsaw socialite who had no talent for child-rearing and no
interest in it. She turned her son over completely to his
governess, a good Catholic, whom he called Kiki, and whom he loved
with all his heart. Julian and his mother were strangers to each
other and Kiki was deeply worried about Julian's immortal soul. She
explained to him that God didn't love Jews because of the horrible
things they had done to His Son, and the only way that Julian could
join her in Heaven was for him to become a Catholic and that she
had the authority to baptize him if he was in danger of death. When
bombs began to fall on Warsaw, Julian's world crumbled. His beloved
Kiki returned to her family in Lodz; Julian's stepfather joined the
Polish army and the grief-stricken boy was left with the mother
whom he hardly knew, but whom he despised. Resourceful and
determined, his mother did whatever was necessary to provide for
her son: brazenly cutting into food lines, and later, finding
themselves under Soviet occupation, befriending Russian officers to
get extra rations of food and fuel. But brought up by Kiki to
distrust all things Jewish, Julian considered his mother's behavior
un-Christian and had difficulty justifying his own survival under
those conditions. There is both humor and pathos as Julian wrestles
with his religious identity in the midst of a hideous war. In the
winter of 1940, as conditions worsened. Julian and his mother made
a dramaticescape to Hungary on foot through the Carpathian
mountains and Julian came to believe that even Jews could go to
Heaven. "I have written Mother and Me with love and humor," Julian
says. It has been described as part Ann Frank, part The Great
Escape and part Marx Brothers.
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