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This is a revealing autobiography, which moves the reader and carries them along on the journey. The author couldn't tell her story for many years, until she managed to break her self-imposed silence to tell her life story. The story moves back and forth from her present reality, which seems calm, solid and successful, to her childhood traumas. Sara was born in 1936 into a Jewish family in Poland. Her first memories are from the age four or five, when she was left homeless and without her family, wandering the streets of the villages of Poland during the Second World War. A stranger found her and presented her as a Christian child to an orphanage in convent. She was adopted by a Christian couple, and was raised as their child until the age of 13. Her biological family, parents and brother, did not survive the Holocaust. She refused to return to her extended family, which finally found her after the war, but she was forced to. Sara has written her story, as well as her feelings, her thoughts, and her dreams, while constantly dealing with her scarred and bruised soul. Beyond her childhood story lie the adult questions and dilemmas of identity and borrowed identity, of religion and nationality, of loyalty to biological or adopted family, of keeping or revealing deep-seated secrets. This book brings stories of human love and compassion, which help the girl and the woman to overcome the nightmares of her past.

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Sara Avinun is a holocaust survivor from Poland who now lives in Israel.

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