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Happy childhood, horrors of war, and the miraculous rescue of the only child survivor from Obertyn Krystyna Carmi's childhood in Obertyn was full of happy moments. Her childhood was filled with friends, both Polish and Ukrainian, and she attended a Ukrainian school. Krystyna Carmi was gifted with an extraordinary memory, and in this memoir, she vividly recounts the history of her family and her life before, during, and after World War II. But her happy childhood did not last long; World War II changed it forever. The worst was still ahead for the Jewish community in Obertyn and for Krystyna's family. After the Germans ordered the Jews to move into the Kolomyja ghetto, Krystyna's family went to live in the ghetto. Her parents and her sister did not survive the family's attempt to escape the ghetto, but despite her loss, Krystyna struggled to stay alive; she was hiding in order to save her life, she faced hunger, thirst, fear for her life. Nevertheless, Providence chose for her to live, to be. More than a memoir, The Strange Ways of Providence in My Life, gives the listener a piece of history.

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Krystyna Carmi was born in Obertyn, Poland. Her father was a photographer by profession. Initially, she attended a Ukrainian school in Obertyn. Further education was interrupted by the war, when the town was under the management of the Ukrainian and German Nazis and Krystyna, as a nine-year-old girl, was exiled with her family and all other Jews from Obertyn to the ghetto in Kolomyja. The living conditions in which Obertyn Jews had to live are described in the poem Molasa-Ghetto Sweets; she shows in a detailed way the psychological and physical suffering caused by hunger. The open mouth and eyes of these human corpses have been hunting me all my life . . . Then she escaped from the ghetto with her parents. Her sisters were murdered and her parents executed. After the loss of her entire family she was adopted in 1944 by the Gaczynski family, who took care of her further education. In March 1945, when the Ukrainian Bandera increased persecution of Poles, including Kolomyja, the Gaczynski family agreed to return to their homes in Brzesko. Krystyna moved to Jordanow home for orphans, called Our House, where she attended high school. Since 1958 Krystyna has lived in Israel. She is married with two children and five grandchildren. Katarzyna Stewart is the translator of Krystyna Carmi's The Strange Ways of Providence In My Life: An Amazing WW2 Survival Story. Katarzyna Stewart is the translator of Krystyna Carmi's The Strange Ways of Providence In My Life: An Amazing WW2 Survival Story. Suzanne Toren has over 30 years of experience in recording. She won the American Foundation for the Blind's Scourby Award for Narrator of the Year in 1988, and AudioFile magazine named her the 2009 Best Voice in Nonfiction & Culture. She is also the recipient of multiple Earphones Awards. Her many credits include works by Jane Smiley, Margaret Weis, Jerry Spinelli, Barbara Kingsolver, and Cynthia Rylant. AudioFile also raves, ""Toren brings a distinguishing warmth and power to her narrations. Her talents extend to both fiction and nonfiction, and in her recording career of 30-plus years she has given listeners heart-wrenching memoirs, lively history, engaging light fiction, and involving mysteries."" Toren also performs on and off-Broadway and in regional theatres.

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