The light in hidden places : a novel based on the true story of Stefania Podgórska /
Cameron, Sharon, 1970-
The light in hidden places : a novel based on the true story of Stefania Podgórska / Sharon Cameron. - First edition. - 377 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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.
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 Przemsyl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) and only 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.
Ages 12+. Scholastic Press. Grades 9 to 12. Scholastic Press.
9781338355932 1338355937
2019025341
Burzminski, Stefania Podgórska--Fiction.
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust--Fiction.
Jews--Poland--Przemyśl--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Fiction.
Przemyśl (Poland)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Poland--History--20th century--Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Historical fiction.
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The light in hidden places : a novel based on the true story of Stefania Podgórska / Sharon Cameron. - First edition. - 377 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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.
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 Przemsyl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) and only 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.
Ages 12+. Scholastic Press. Grades 9 to 12. Scholastic Press.
9781338355932 1338355937
2019025341
Burzminski, Stefania Podgórska--Fiction.
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust--Fiction.
Jews--Poland--Przemyśl--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Fiction.
Przemyśl (Poland)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Poland--History--20th century--Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Historical fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)