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MY REAL NAME IS HANNA
A 2018 Skipping Stones Honor Award Book
Hanna Slivka is fourteen when German soldiers arrive in 1940s Kwasova, a village that is sometimes Russian, sometimes Polish and sometimes Ukrainian but where Hanna and her family have always been first and foremost Jewish. Until their arrival, Hanna has split her time between exploring Kwasova with her younger siblings, trading drawings over lunch with the sweet and shy Leon Stadnick, and assisting her neighbor, Mrs. Petrovich, with her annual dyeing and selling of psyanky, decorative eggs many in their community consider talismans. But before long, she, Leon and their families are forced into hiding, first in the woods outside of their town and then into caverns beneath it. At no time are they more tested than when Hanna's father - briefly above ground to scavenge for food - goes missing, and suddenly, it's on Hanna to find him, and to find a way to keep her mother, brother and sister alive.
MY REAL NAME IS HANNA is inspired by the true story of Esther Stermer and her family, who survived underground for 511 days, far longer than anyone ever has; expert cavers, by contrast, have only lasted a handful of months. Less than 5% of the Jewish population in Ukraine survived the Holocaust "Actions." The Stermers are one of the few families that remained intact. Their story is the focus of an award-winning documentary, No Place on Earth, but it - like so many Ukrainian stories of the Holocaust - has yet to be explored in literature outside of Esther's own self-published, difficult to find memoir.
Tara L. Masih has won multiple book awards as editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction and The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays. Author of Where the Dog Star Never Glows: Stories (a National Best Books Award finalist), she has published fiction, poetry, and essays in numerous anthologies and literary magazines (including Confrontation, Hayden's Ferry Review, Natural Bridge, The Los Angeles Review, Pleiades, and The Caribbean Writer).
Hanna Slivka is fourteen when German soldiers arrive in 1940s Kwasova, a village that is sometimes Russian, sometimes Polish and sometimes Ukrainian but where Hanna and her family have always been first and foremost Jewish. Until their arrival, Hanna has split her time between exploring Kwasova with her younger siblings, trading drawings over lunch with the sweet and shy Leon Stadnick, and assisting her neighbor, Mrs. Petrovich, with her annual dyeing and selling of psyanky, decorative eggs many in their community consider talismans. But before long, she, Leon and their families are forced into hiding, first in the woods outside of their town and then into caverns beneath it. At no time are they more tested than when Hanna's father - briefly above ground to scavenge for food - goes missing, and suddenly, it's on Hanna to find him, and to find a way to keep her mother, brother and sister alive.
MY REAL NAME IS HANNA is inspired by the true story of Esther Stermer and her family, who survived underground for 511 days, far longer than anyone ever has; expert cavers, by contrast, have only lasted a handful of months. Less than 5% of the Jewish population in Ukraine survived the Holocaust "Actions." The Stermers are one of the few families that remained intact. Their story is the focus of an award-winning documentary, No Place on Earth, but it - like so many Ukrainian stories of the Holocaust - has yet to be explored in literature outside of Esther's own self-published, difficult to find memoir.
Tara L. Masih has won multiple book awards as editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction and The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays. Author of Where the Dog Star Never Glows: Stories (a National Best Books Award finalist), she has published fiction, poetry, and essays in numerous anthologies and literary magazines (including Confrontation, Hayden's Ferry Review, Natural Bridge, The Los Angeles Review, Pleiades, and The Caribbean Writer).
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Published 2018-09-01 by Mandel Vilar Press |