![]() ![]() His parents and some of his siblings had already been rounded up in a Aktion, and sent to their deaths and he and his brother have escaped the ghetto. ![]() One night, in November 1942, Max Diamant shows up at Fusia's door and asks to stay the night. There she finds everyone gone, except her 6-year-old sister Helena, whom she brings back to Przemsyl with her. ![]() But then she learns that the Nazis have killed Izio, Grieving, Fusia decides to go back to the family farm. Fusia is tasked with helping them survive by bringing what she could sneak in by squeezing through the fence. ![]() In April 1942, the Diamants are forced to move into the Przemsyl ghetto. But in September 1939, Poland is attacked and invaded by the Nazis and life changes for everyone. Welcomed into the family, Fusia lives there for 3 happy years, during which a secret attraction developes between Catholic Fusia and Jewish Izio Diamant. It is a fictional account of the life of Stefania "Fusia" Podgorska and her yonger sister Helena who were ultimately named as Righteous Among Nations by Yad Vashem for hiding and saving the lives of 13 Jews during the Holocaust.Īt age 12, Fusia decides to leave her family's farm to live with the Diamants, a Jewish family that runs a grocery store in Przemsyl, Poland. I usually think of Sharon Cameron as a writer of science fiction not historical fiction, but she has really outdone herself with The Light in Hidden Places. ![]()
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