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Title Statement | The light in hidden places: a novel based on the true story of Stefania Podgórska / Sharon Cameron. |
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Author | Cameron, Sharon, 1970- |
Publication | New York: Scholastic Press,2020. |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | 377 pages |
ISBN | 1338355937 9781338355932 |
Other Number | 3786562 |
General Notes | Based on the true story of Stefania Podgórska. Includes an author's note that outlines the later lives of Stefania, and the many of the other people who appear in the book. |
Summary | Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podgórska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemyâsl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) but Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring for her younger sister, Helena, and keeping everything secret from the two Nazi officers who are living in her house. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust--Fiction |
Jews--Fiction--Poland--Przemyâsl | |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction--Poland | |
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction--Poland | |
By Name | Burzminski, Stefania Podgórska |
By Location | Przemyâsl (Poland)--Fiction--History--20th century |
Poland--Fiction--History--20th century | |
By Genre | Biographical fiction |
Historical fiction |