Little bird of Auschwitz : how my mother escaped death and found our family

The Resource Little bird of Auschwitz : how my mother escaped death and found our family

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Little bird of Auschwitz : how my mother escaped death and found our family

Title remainder

how my mother escaped death and found our family

Statement of responsibility

Alina and Jacques Peretti

Language

eng

Summary

'My son Jacques is telling my story. I always wanted to tell it myself but never could. Maybe my English wasn't good enough. I never had the courage. I never imagined for a second it would be written down.' As a reporter, Jacques Peretti has spent his life investigating important stories. But there was one story, heard in scattered fragments throughout his childhood, that he never thought to investigate. The story of how his mother survived Auschwitz. In the few last months of the War, thirteen-year-old Alina Peretti, along with her mother and sister, was one of thirteen thousand non-Jewish Poles sent to Auschwitz, in the wake of the Warsaw Uprising. Her experiences there, which she rarely discussed, cast a shadow over the rest of her life. Now ninety, Alina has been diagnosed with dementia. Together, mother and son begin a race against time to record her memories and preserve her family's story

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

AU@

Dewey number

940.5318092

Illustrations

illustrations
portraits

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no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult

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