TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grumberg,Jean-Claude
AU  - Wynne,Frank
TI  - The most precious of cargoes: a tale 
SN  - 9780062981790
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Jewish children in the Holocaust
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Jews
KW  - Novels
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical fiction
N2  - A fairytale-like novel set during the height of World War II finds a childless, impoverished woodcutter's wife risking her safety to take in and protect a Jewish baby, a twin abandoned under desperate circumstances; World War II. In an enormous forest a woodcutter and his wife find it difficult to put food on the table. Yet every night, his wife prays for a child. A Jewish father rides on a train holding twin babies. His wife no longer has enough milk to feed both children. In hopes of saving them both, he wraps his daughter in a shawl and throws her into the forest. While foraging for food, the wife finds a baby girl wrapped in a shawl. Although she knows harboring this baby could lead to her death, she takes the child home. -- adapted from jacket
ER  -