Irena's gift An epic World War II memoir of sisters, secrets and survival

Karen Kirsten

Book - 2024

In 1942, in Nazi-occupied Poland, a Jewish child was smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto in a backpack. That child was Karen Kirsten's mother, but she knew nothing about this extraordinary event until one day a letter arrived from a stranger. After Karen eventually discovered the grandparents she loved dearly were in fact not her biological grandparents, she travelled the globe to uncover her family's past and to find the answers to baffling questions-why did her adoptive grandmother treat Karen's mother so unkindly? Why did she hide the truth that she was her mother's aunt? And why, if she appeared to dislike Karen's mother, did she risk her life to save her and bring her to Australia?

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Genres
Biographies
Published
New York, NY : Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp [2024]
Language
English
Main Author
Karen Kirsten (author)
Physical Description
x, 384 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
9780806543659
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