num_pages: 384
description: "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
language: English
title: The Seamstress
titlecomplete: The Seamstress
genres: Autobiography, Historical, History, World War II, Holocaust, Biography Memoir, War, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 7240
places: Romania
awards: awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: Audie Award
category: Biography/Memoir
publisher: Berkley