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02543aam a2200313Ii 4500 001 72413274BBBE11E38906827BDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20200718010928 008 131115s2013 nyua 000 0aeng d 020 $a 1620401495 (hardcover) 020 $a 9781620401491 (hardcover) 040 $d SILO 050 4 $a DK4420.C35 $b L48 2013 082 04 $a 943.805/3 $2 23 100 1 $a Calverley, Renata, $d 1937- 245 10 $a Let me tell you a story : $b a memoir of a wartime childhood / $c Renata Calverley. 250 $a First U.S. Edition. 260 $a New York : $b Bloomsbury, $c 2013. 300 $a 340 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a "Przemysl, Poland, 1939. No one has explained to two-year-old Renatka what war is. She knows her Tatus, a doctor, is away with the Polish Army, that her beautiful Mamusia is no longer allowed to work at the university, and that their frequent visitors among them Great Aunt Zuzia and Great Uncle Julek with their gifts of melon and clothes have stopped appearing. One morning Mamusia comes home with little yellow six-pointed stars for them to wear. Renatka thinks they will keep her family safe. In June of 1942, soldiers in gray-green uniforms take Renata, Mamusia, and grandmother Babcia to the Ghetto where they are crammed into one room with other frightened families. The adults are forced to work long hours at the factory and to survive on next to no food. One day Mamusia and Babcia do not return from their shifts. Six years old and utterly alone, Renata is passed from place to place and survives through the willingness of ordinary people to take the most deadly risks. Her unlikely blonde hair and blue eyes and other twists of fate save her life but stories become her salvation. Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales transport her to an enchanted world; David Copperfield helps her cope on her own. A chronicle of the horrors of war, Let Me Tell You a Story is a powerful and moving memoir of growing up in a traumatic world, and of the magical discovery of books." -- Book jacket. 600 10 $a Calverley, Renata, $d 1937- $x Childhood and youth. 650 0 $a Holocaust survivors $z Poland $v Biography. 650 0 $a Jewish girls $z PrzemysÌl. $z PrzemysÌl. 650 0 $a Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) $z PrzemysÌl $z PrzemysÌl $v Personal narratives. 941 $a 3 952 $l GQPB641 $d 20190423014231.0 952 $l GFPE771 $d 20150911034722.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20140404010202.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=72413274BBBE11E38906827BDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search