PAPER HEARTS FREE

PAPER HEARTS FREE

But, be warned: be sure you have plenВty of free time. This remarkВable book is highВly recВomВmendВed. Paper Hearts is aВ beauВtiВful tribВute to these braveВ women. The card, now on exhibВit in the MonВtreВal HoloВcaust MemoВrВiВal CenВtre, and the sigВnaВtures of the twenВty women who signed it, are real, as is much of the stoВry itself. She also creВates aВ birthВday cardвЂ‰-вЂ‰four purВple hearts glued togethВer and signed by each girl, all riskВing death to accomВplish this imposВsiВble feat. When it is FaniaвЂ™s twenВtiВeth birthВday, ZlatВka ralВlies all of the girls in their block to help make aВ birthВday cake from comВbined bread rations and stolen butВter and marВmalade. The ultiВmate act of defiВance, spearВheadВed by ZlatВka, is the inspiВraВtion for the bookвЂ™s title. Author Meg WivВiott capВtiВvates readВers with her amazВing abilВiВty to relate the horВror, the fear, and the small triВumphs of ZlatВka and Fania as they help each othВer fight to stay alive. What makes this stoВry stand out above othВer HoloВcaust accounts is that it is told comВpleteВly in verse. Paper Hearts shows the daiВly horВrors of life in Auschwitz. She and ZlotВka form aВ close bond, each supВportВing the othВer, forcВing each friend to do whatВevВer it takes to survive.] When her younger sisВter falls ill, she is takВen away, and Fania seeks comВfort from aВ small group of girls.

Soon after, both Fania and ZlatВka wind up at Auschwitz, where Fania and her younger sisВter are sepВaВratВed from their famВiВly, nevВer to see them again. When she returns, she disВcovВers her famВiВly has disВapВpeared. Her path folВlows ZlotkaвЂ™s in the beginВning, but Fania is sent to prison earВly on. The stoВry then focusВes on Fania, just sixВteen when the GerВmans arrive in Poland. ForВmer friends turn their backs on ZlatВka and her famВiВly, then jobs and school become forВbidВden and finalВly, the famВiВly is forced to board aВ train that carВries them, along with catВtle-cars filled with othВer Jews, far away from everyВthing theyвЂ™ve ever known.

Her freeВdom is stripped away, one painful layВer at aВ time. The stoВry begins with ZlatВka, aВ sevВenВteen-year-old growВing up in comВfort, who sudВdenВly finds herВself surВroundВed by hatred and fear as her town falls to the Nazis. Paper Hearts weaves togethВer the lives of two young adults as they strugВgle to surВvive the HoloВcaust. Paper Hearts by Meg WivВiott | JewВish Book CounВcil

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