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1941, Hitler's army crosses into Soviet-ruled Ukraine in a secret mission titled "Operation Barbarossa. A young Jewish girl, Hanna Slivka is fourteen when German soldiers arrive in her small village of Kwasova. Until their arrival, Hanna has split her time between playing with her younger siblings, sharing drawings with the sweet shy Leon Stadnick, and assisting her neighbor, Mrs. Petrovich, with her annual dyeing and selling of psyanky, decorative...
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Mandel Vilar Press
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2018.
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English
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Hanna Slivka is on the cusp of fourteen when Hitler's army crosses the border into Soviet-occupied Ukraine. The Gestapo is determined to make the shtetele she lives in "free of Jews." Now she, her friend Leon, and their families are forced to flee and hide in the forest, and then in the dark caves beneath the rolling meadows, rumored to harbor evil spirits. They battle sickness and starvation. When Hanna's father disappears, it's up to Hanna to find...
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