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02647pam a2200433 a 4500 001 0BCB71F82B0E11DE8F715E08A8D7520A 005 20220519010419 008 050810s2006 nyu c 000 1 eng 010 $a 2005052113 020 $a 0374364192 020 $a 9780374364199 035 $a (OCoLC)61362194 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BKX $d XY4 $d BTCTA $d LI@ $d SILO 100 1 $a Wulf, Linda Press. 245 1 $a The night of the burning : $b Devorah's story / $c Linda Press Wulf. 246 30 $a Night of the burning 246 30 $a Devorah's story 250 $a 1st ed. 260 $a New York : $b Farrar, Straus, Giroux, $c 2006. 300 $a xii, 210 p. ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a Still sad and frightened after living in Poland through World War I and the Russian Revolution, twelve-year-old Devorah Lehrman, her younger sister, and other Jewish orphans travel with Isaac Ochberg to South Africa and make a new start. Devorah's world is shattered by the tragedies of post-Great War Europe: gas poisoning, famine, typhoid, and influenza. Then comes the Night of the Burning, when Cossacks provoke Christian Poles to attack their Jewish neighbors. In 1920, eleven-year-old Devorah and her little sister, Nechama, are the sole survivors of their community. Salvation arrives in the form of a South African philanthropist named Isaac Ochberg, who invites Devorah and Nechama to join his group of two hundred orphans in their journey to safety in South Africa. Although reluctant to leave her homeland, and afraid to forget her family, Devorah follows her sister, who is determined to go to the new country. There Devorah is dealt the greatest blow - Nechama is adopted and taken away from her. In the end, though, Devorah realizes that she is not solely responsible for keeping the past alive, and that she will not betray her beloved parents when she is adopted herself - and finds happiness again. 600 11 $a Ochberg, Isaac, $d 1878-1937 $v Fiction. 650 1 $a Orphans $v Fiction. 650 1 $a Jews $v Fiction. 650 1 $a Emigration and immigration $v Fiction. 650 1 $a Immigrants. $v Fiction. 650 1 $a Sisters. $v Fiction. 651 1 $a Poland $x History $y 1918-1945 $v Fiction. 651 1 $a South Africa $x History $y 1909-1961 $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 gsafd 939 $a 5728318 941 $a 5 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20200609010417.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20160202033450.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0BCB71F82B0E11DE8F715E08A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b LI@ 952 $l AXPF626 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l UTAX115 $d 20090701080000.0Initiate Another SILO Locator Search