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I AM SASHA
A page-turning and fascinating fictionalised story based on real events of one Jewish boy’s experiences escaping detection in wartime Poland.
How do you try and forget things that change your life forever? Can you? Can you ever forget? I don’t think you can. Or should. Now I thought
of all the details of our apartment in Lwow, the walnut timber bedheads, the tiny details on the plasterwork round the ceiling. I remembered sobbing for ages one day, the day I had to wear a dress for the first time. I stood in front of a mirror and looked at me, dressed as a girl. The dress that saved my life.
It’s 1942, and for a Jewish family living in Poland, every day is a search for food, and the need to hide their identity from the Nazi soldiers swarming the streets. Men and women are continually harassed, and soldiers would stop young boys and pull down their trousers to see if they were circumcised.
I Am Sasha is the moving account of a mother’s braveness and ingenuity in saving the life of her beloved son. To prevent Sasha being discovered, she turns her 12-year-old son into a girl, Sala. Clothes, voice, hair, manners – all are a challenge to mother and son in a climate where the hunt for Jews is becoming more intense every day.
The story sweeps backwards and forwards across occupied Europe, and the courage and resourcefulness of the families in this remarkable story make for enthralling reading. A compelling story based on real events, which takes the reader directly to the heart of occupied Poland in the 1940s.
ANITA SELZER has a Bachelor of Arts (History and Politics, Melbourne University), a Diploma of Education and a Master of Educational Studies. She has a Doctor of Philosophy in Education/ History, and has been a Lecturer and tutor in Politics and English at Swinburne College, Executive Officer: Women’s Affairs – Premier’s Department of Victoria and a book reviewer for Cambridge University Press. She has published numerous articles and papers, many of them on gender issues, education and educational policy.
of all the details of our apartment in Lwow, the walnut timber bedheads, the tiny details on the plasterwork round the ceiling. I remembered sobbing for ages one day, the day I had to wear a dress for the first time. I stood in front of a mirror and looked at me, dressed as a girl. The dress that saved my life.
It’s 1942, and for a Jewish family living in Poland, every day is a search for food, and the need to hide their identity from the Nazi soldiers swarming the streets. Men and women are continually harassed, and soldiers would stop young boys and pull down their trousers to see if they were circumcised.
I Am Sasha is the moving account of a mother’s braveness and ingenuity in saving the life of her beloved son. To prevent Sasha being discovered, she turns her 12-year-old son into a girl, Sala. Clothes, voice, hair, manners – all are a challenge to mother and son in a climate where the hunt for Jews is becoming more intense every day.
The story sweeps backwards and forwards across occupied Europe, and the courage and resourcefulness of the families in this remarkable story make for enthralling reading. A compelling story based on real events, which takes the reader directly to the heart of occupied Poland in the 1940s.
ANITA SELZER has a Bachelor of Arts (History and Politics, Melbourne University), a Diploma of Education and a Master of Educational Studies. She has a Doctor of Philosophy in Education/ History, and has been a Lecturer and tutor in Politics and English at Swinburne College, Executive Officer: Women’s Affairs – Premier’s Department of Victoria and a book reviewer for Cambridge University Press. She has published numerous articles and papers, many of them on gender issues, education and educational policy.
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