Rent The Seamstress

Synopsis

From its opening pages, in which she recounts her own premature birth, triggered by terrifying rumors of an incipient pogrom, Bernstein's tale is clearly not a typical memoir of the Holocaust. She was born into a large family in rural Romania...and grew up feisty and willing to fight back physically against anti-Semitism from other schoolchildren. She defied her father's orders to turn down a scholarship that took her to Bucharest, and got herself expelled from that school when she responded to a priest/teacher's vicious diatribe against the Jews by hurling a bottle of ink at him...After a series of incidents that ranged from dramatic escapes to a year in a forced labor detachment, Sara ended up in Ravensbruck, a women's concentration camp, [and] managed to survive...she tells this story with style and power.' -Kirkus Reviews

'There are many recent accounts of Holocaust victims, but this work stands alone as a testimony to personal strength and an independent spirit.' -Library Journal

'Extraordinary.' -Booklist

'An engrossing history lesson as well as an important archive.' -Faye Kellerman
'Well-told...deserves a prominent place in the archive of Holocaust survival stories.' -Publishers Weekly

'One of the best of the recent wave of Holocaust memoirs' (Kirkus Reviews)

--An ALA choice for the Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults, and the second-place winner in the General Trade Nonfiction category at the New York Book Show
--Includes an introduction by Edgar M. Bronfman
--Written by a strong woman with a colorful and unusual story to tell, this book is a standout in a popular subgenre of the memoir form

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