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The Warsaw Orphan
by Kelly Rimmer
Cedarburg book club March 2023
I have enjoyed the other books I've read by Kelly Rimmer.
I knew about the Warsaw Guetto uprising, but I didn't know about the Warsaw proper uprising -
I know of Dunkirk, probably because of the movie. I found there is a Warsaw Uprising Documentary...to watch....
The Warsaw Orphan rotates between Elzbieta/Emilia and Roman.
Emilia has her own secrets and family genetics so to speak. Many of her actions follow the actions of her real father and brother. She is fortunate to have been taken in by a family who gets her counterfeit papers and away from her hometown. But she is suffocated by concerns of her safety and she seeks friendship with a women on their floor who is a nurse/social worker. Sara's work takes her to the Warsaw ghetto where she helps smuggle out children. Her group keeps records of the children. I expected the records would be in a neat ledger...they were kept on cigarette papers.
Roman and his family are confined in the ghetto. His step dad is optimistic that things will get better ... we know the truth. Sara gets the baby out and to a family. Roman is at the community center when his family is taken. After they are gone, he joins the ghetto revolution.
The Warsaw uprising seems to be going well, but it falls in the end and citizen are taken to camps.
Emilia and her family go to the texile factory of the uncle. Times are still hard, now they have the Russians... Emilia encounters tradegy, the family returns to Warsaw to find Sara and Roman.
Emilia makes some very difficult and sound decisions.
The book involes disaster, death, survival, recovery, and family reunification.
Cover/title? who does the title & cover protray? Sure, Emilia and Roman.
but also Elianora and Anatoll(ms)
Notes from https://theglossbookclub.com/special-note-kelly-rimmer-on-the-warsaw-orphan/
Sara inspired by "Irena Sendler was a Polish nurse and social worker, and working with a team of other Polish women, she facilitated the rescue of more than 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto" " I [Kelly Rimmer] became fascinated by Irena after reading Irena’s Children by Tilar J. Mazzeo and Life in a Jar by Jack Mayer."
I have enjoyed the other books I've read by Kelly Rimmer.
I knew about the Warsaw Guetto uprising, but I didn't know about the Warsaw proper uprising -
I know of Dunkirk, probably because of the movie. I found there is a Warsaw Uprising Documentary...to watch....
The Warsaw Orphan rotates between Elzbieta/Emilia and Roman.
Emilia has her own secrets and family genetics so to speak. Many of her actions follow the actions of her real father and brother. She is fortunate to have been taken in by a family who gets her counterfeit papers and away from her hometown. But she is suffocated by concerns of her safety and she seeks friendship with a women on their floor who is a nurse/social worker. Sara's work takes her to the Warsaw ghetto where she helps smuggle out children. Her group keeps records of the children. I expected the records would be in a neat ledger...they were kept on cigarette papers.
Roman and his family are confined in the ghetto. His step dad is optimistic that things will get better ... we know the truth. Sara gets the baby out and to a family. Roman is at the community center when his family is taken. After they are gone, he joins the ghetto revolution.
The Warsaw uprising seems to be going well, but it falls in the end and citizen are taken to camps.
Emilia and her family go to the texile factory of the uncle. Times are still hard, now they have the Russians... Emilia encounters tradegy, the family returns to Warsaw to find Sara and Roman.
Emilia makes some very difficult and sound decisions.
The book involes disaster, death, survival, recovery, and family reunification.
Cover/title? who does the title & cover protray? Sure, Emilia and Roman.
but also Elianora and Anatoll(ms)
Notes from https://theglossbookclub.com/special-note-kelly-rimmer-on-the-warsaw-orphan/
Sara inspired by "Irena Sendler was a Polish nurse and social worker, and working with a team of other Polish women, she facilitated the rescue of more than 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto" " I [Kelly Rimmer] became fascinated by Irena after reading Irena’s Children by Tilar J. Mazzeo and Life in a Jar by Jack Mayer."