Sounds like a great set-up for a compelling historical novel, doesn’t it?Īnd it is, for most of the book. They can maintain a low profile and try to get by. And both must decide how to survive the war. Both witness despicable acts, suffer loss, and experience terror for their own futures and for those they love. Into this horrific setting popular author Kelly Rimmer places two youths: 13 year old Emilia (a Catholic) and 16 year old Roman (raised Catholic but half-Jewish). And of course, there’s a thriving black market. Shortages and mass hunger are widespread. Polish resistance and uprisings against Germany spring up. Some Poles conduct secret efforts to rescue Jewish children, at great risk to themselves. Jewish deportations to concentration camps begin. A time when Jews are being isolated into what would become known as the Warsaw Ghetto, facing ever- increasing persecution and brutality. THE WARSAW ORPHAN covers four years in Poland during World War II (1939-1945).
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