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The Secret of the Priest’s Grotto 2008 SYDNEY TAYLOR HONOR AWARD FOR OLDER READERS The extraordinary tale of how the Stermer family, an extended Jewish family, and several of their Jewish neighbors hid for 344 days in a dark maze of caves in western Ukraine to escape the Nazis. They survived underground with little light, food and warmth, sleeping up to 22 hours a day lying side-by-side for body warmth. The women and youngest children never ventured above ground, but the men would set out at night, under cover of darkness, to scavenge for food and fuel, and trade with a few sympathetic peasants for oil, matches, grain and other rations. A miraculous story of determination and survival. All ages. |
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