Bessie's pillow
Subtitle: a young immigrant's journey
By: Linda Bress Silbert
Publisher: Strong Learning Publications
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780895442017
Subjects: Fiction; Immigrants; Jewish refugees
Description: "May this pillow bring you peace. So reads the pillow entrusted, in 1906, to 18-year-old Boshka Markman as she prepares to board a train in Vilna, Lithuania. One of hundreds of thousands of Jewish immigrants who will leave Europe to escape persecution, she travels to America alone."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: "Based on a true story."

"Based on the life of Bessie Markman Dreizen as gleaned from conversation with her daughter, Ann Dreizen Bress."--Page 4 of cover.

"Bessie's Pillow is Linda's first novel."--Page 4 of cover.