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When Abigail finds her grandmother’s diary, the atrocious memories of the Holocaust horrors suddenly crash into the lives of the two women. Abigail knows that her grandparents were Holocaust survivors; she has heard countless stories of her grandfather escaping the ghetto and later joining the partisans. However, it is hard for her to imagine that her kind-hearted grandma had hidden the strength necessary to survive one of the greatest tragedies in the history of humankind. Bina and Abigail, grandmother and granddaughter, one in her sunset years and the other in her flourishing ones: two generations coming together to try to heal the scars of a merciless past. The two will have to find solace in each other against the painful memories during their reading sessions as they live through Bina’s childhood in the ghetto, her flight from the Nazis, and her escape from the Janowska concentration camp. Bina, who was just a child when her life was brutally interrupted by unimaginable sufferings, managed to find a renewed meaning in her life. Because every life is a worthy one.

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This is a very moving book that you can not put down. An amazing survival journey of a little girl during the holocaust revealed to the reader through a very special relationship between a grandmother and her granddaughter. The author succeeded in retelling the unbelievably terrifying experiences of one Jewish family in a way that is easy to digest, by weaving it through a present day plot. - Liora Bar tur A worthy life - worth reading This is a wonderful book. The characters of grandmother and granddaughter are so well crafted that you can identify with them, at any stage of your own life as well as in your family's past. Daliah Moore combines her academic knowledge of history with a literary talent. I could not leave the book until late at night. Important and a page turner. - Gabriela Dahlia Moore wrote an elder romance and medical drama I read last year (Inadvertent Encounters). It was so good. I liked her main character's deliberating mind, and this one is no different. She is a historian who writes beautiful prose, and the story is well constructed and researched. Not only is it a travel through Bina's recollections of her life in Poland and her parents narrowly surviving Janowska, it also details the present-day fallout from her relationships with her mother, so that the book covers four generations of women (Bina's mother, Bina, Julie, her daughter, and Abi, her granddaughter). Bina and Abi get along great and live together, whereas Julie is estranged. A romance involves Bina reuniting with her childhood boyfriend from the refugee camp, meeting him randomly in the U.S. He turns out to have a connection to their family in a wonderful way. I learned a lot about Poland during the war from reading this book, Since Dr. Moore does her research. She is a brilliant writer who crafts tender scenes of people finding love in old age, often for the second time. The thrill of romance is clearly revealed as worth living for, and her savvy details about female relationships are always on point. The chapters are set up in a way that we know what to expect in each one: a new day, a conversation with Abi, an outing, a reading from her diary, a discussion about it with Abi. The predictable rhythm is comforting, in spite of the graphic details about Nazi treatment of Jews in Poland. Overall, a triumph! - Valerie

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Raised mainly in West Africa, Dahlia Moore received her Ph.D. in social psychology. Having worked all her life in academic settings, teaching, and researching issues of equality, justice, and gender, she published many professional books and articles. In her latest position, Prof. Moore served as vice president of Tel Aviv academic college. She now devotes her time to literary writing, her dream for years. She lives on the cliffs overlooking the Mediterranean with her husband and dog. Her first novel, Inadvertent encounters, was published in 2022. This book, her second, is a historical fiction manuscript based on a true story set in World War II. Her next one will be a literary fiction in which a deeply buried secret from the second world war shadows a man's life.

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