What Fiction are you reading this week, November 7, 2021?

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19. Finishing up Gertrude Beasley's My First Thirty Years and all I have to say is thank

god it's almost over. It is a depressing book, though I learned from the historical parts.

My sister recently read a YA book and recommended it to me, so I downloaded Michael Bornstein, Debbie Bornstein Holinstat, Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz.

In 1945, in a now-famous piece of World War II archival footage, four-year-old Michael Bornstein was filmed by Soviet soldiers as he was carried out of Auschwitz in his grandmother’s arms. Survivors Club tells the unforgettable story of how a father’s courageous wit, a mother’s fierce love, and one perfectly timed illness saved his life, and how others in his family from Zarki, Poland, dodged death at the hands of the Nazis time and again with incredible deftness. Working from his own recollections as well as extensive interviews with relatives and survivors who knew the family, Michael relates his inspirational Holocaust survival story with the help of his daughter, Debbie Bornstein Holinstat. Shocking, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting, this narrative nonfiction offers an indelible depiction of what happened to one Polish village in the wake of the German invasion in 1939.

My 2 little foster kittens went to a rescue shelter for FIV+ cats last week and our house is too quiet. We miss them so much.

Thanks for the weekly thread, hermetic. Hope everyone is in this frame of mind[img][/img]