Author
Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
who has dazzled middle grade readers
with her historical fiction and non-fiction books
including picture books,
with her historical fiction and non-fiction books
including picture books,
is back with her newest
Don't Tell the Enemy
Written by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Scholastic Canada
978-1-4431-2839-1
184 pp.
Ages 10-14
January 2018
on
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
at
7 p.m.
at
Braemar House School
36 Baxter Street
Brantford, ON
(Map here)
(Map here)
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Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
will speak about the real mother and daughter
who risked their lives to hide three Jewish friends
during the Holocaust.
will speak about the real mother and daughter
who risked their lives to hide three Jewish friends
during the Holocaust.
This is their story (from the blurb on Scholastic Canada website:
How much would you do for a friend? Krystia’s family hides Jews from the Nazis at immense risk to their own lives.
Life is becoming dangerous for Krystia. It’s 1941 and her town in Ukraine is now occupied by the Soviets. Some members of her family are harassed, while others are arrested and killed. When the Nazis liberate the town, they are welcomed with open arms. But Krystia’s best friend Dolik has doubts. His family is Jewish and rumours are that the Nazis are even more brutal than the Soviets.
When the Nazis discover a mass grave of Soviet prisoners, they use it as an excuse and blame the slaughter on the Jews. Soon after, the Nazis establish ghettoes and begin public execution of Jews. Krystia can’t bear to see her friends suffer, so she smuggles food in for them. When word gets out that the ghetto will be cleared and Jews will be exterminated, Krystia must make an impossible decision. Will she risk her own family’s safety to save her friends?
on December 14, 2017.
Book sales and signing will follow the author's presentation.
(Proceeds will go to the Scholarship Fund of CFUW Brantford)
Light refreshments will be served.
