The Sky in One Piece

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Summary: Poignant story of survival
Review: "The Sky In One Piece" by Hannah Podob is a wonderfully written, pignant story about Hannah and her parents who managed to escape from the Nazis during WWII through sheer determination, braveryh, and the will to survive, with the assistance of a Polish farmer who risked his life and the lives of his family enabling Hannah and her family to survive the horrors of the Nazi regime.

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Summary: A treasure of a book!
Review: "The Sky in One Piece" is a small tale of one family's heroic escape from the Nazis, that will leave an enormous impression on your heart. Told in a child's voice, the reader follows the journey of the author and her parents, depicting the everyday occurrences before and during their flight from persecution by the Nazis because they were Jewish. Unlike other depictions of the horror of the Holocaust, Hannah Podob has you share in her innocent version of the hardships her family endured, as only someone could because she was loved and protected by close and loving parents. With humor along with the scattering of harsh news reports of the day, readers will follow one family who with love and spirit did triumph and endure to find freedom and life in America.

Rating:
Summary: A treasure of a book!
Review: "The Sky in One Piece" is a small tale of one family's heroic escape from the Nazis, that will leave an enormous impression on your heart. Told in a child's voice, the reader follows the journey of the author and her parents, depicting the everyday occurrences before and during their flight from persecution by the Nazis because they were Jewish. Unlike other depictions of the horror of the Holocaust, Hannah Podob has you share in her innocent version of the hardships her family endured, as only someone could because she was loved and protected by close and loving parents. With humor along with the scattering of harsh news reports of the day, readers will follow one family who with love and spirit did triumph and endure to find freedom and life in America.

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Summary: Harrowing History Overcome
Review: Hannah Podob has told in admirably clear and unaffected prose her childhood and family history as a survivor of the Holocaust and its impact upon her, her family and the people she knew. Without sentimentality, she recalls her parents and the difficulties they overcame to be together. The rise of the Nazis provides a sinister shadow to her childhood and, like most Jewish people, Hannah and her family try to escape from their home in Warsaw before they are imprisoned or worse.

At the centre of the story are the years she and her parents spent crouched in a tiny, improvised lean-to provided by a kindly Polish farmer. It is not a spectacular story but it is a very human one and it deserves to be added to the body of literature remebering those events. It is also inspirational as to what people can achieve with persistence, love and luck.

I originally reviewed this book for bookpleasures.com and I am happy to provide a further testament here.

Rating:
Summary: Poignant story of survival
Review: I had the honor of reading this book, and, through it, I was invited into Ms. Podob's life. She brought me through her formative years living in Nazi-occupied Poland. She brings a very human, loving, family feel to this horrible time, allowing us to see first hand how a family was affected by this global tragedy. This book is a must read for anyone...not only those interested in Jewish history and/or the holocaust...