LEADER 03007cam a2200481 a 4500001 138079 005 20240621182632.0 008 050810s2006 nyu c 000 1 eng 010 2005052113 020 0374364192 |qhardcover 020 9780374364199 035 (OCoLC)ocm61362194 035 138079 042 lcac 043 e-pl---f-sa--- 049 LHMA 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dBAKER |dBKX |dXY4 |dBTCTA |dYDXCP |dEHH |dVP@ 050 00 PZ7.W96362 |bN5 2006 100 1 Wulf, Linda Press. 245 14 The night of the burning : |bDevorah's story / |cLinda Press Wulf. 250 First edition. 264 1 New York : |bFarrar, Straus, Giroux, |c2006. 300 xii, 210 pages ; |c22 cm 385 |nageChildren |2lcdgt 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 520 Still sad and frightened after living in Poland through World War I and the Russian Revolution, twelve-year-old Devorah Lehrman, her younger sister, and other Jewish orphans travel with Isaac Ochberg to South Africa and make a new start. Devorah's world is shattered by the tragedies of post-Great War Europe: gas poisoning, famine, typhoid, and influenza. Then comes the Night of the Burning, when Cossacks provoke Christian Poles to attack their Jewish neighbors. In 1920, eleven-year-old Devorah and her little sister, Nechama, are the sole survivors of their community. Salvation arrives in the form of a South African philanthropist named Isaac Ochberg, who invites Devorah and Nechama to join his group of two hundred orphans in their journey to safety in South Africa. Although reluctant to leave her homeland, and afraid to forget her family, Devorah follows her sister, who is determined to go to the new country. There Devorah is dealt the greatest blow - Nechama is adopted and taken away from her. In the end, though, Devorah realizes that she is not solely responsible for keeping the past alive, and that she will not betray her beloved parents when she is adopted herself - and finds happiness again. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Orphans |vJuvenile fiction. 650 0 Jews |vJuvenile fiction. 650 0 Emigration and immigration |vJuvenile fiction. 650 0 Immigrants |vJuvenile fiction. 650 0 Sisters |vJuvenile fiction. 600 10 Ochberg, Isaac, |d1878-1937 |vJuvenile fiction. 651 0 Poland |xHistory |y1918-1945 |vJuvenile fiction. 651 0 South Africa |xHistory |y1909-1961 |vJuvenile fiction. 655 7 Fiction. |2lcgft 856 42 |3Table of contents only |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0706/2005052113.html 856 42 |3Contributor biographical information |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0643/2005052113-b.html 856 42 |3Publisher description |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0643/2005052113-d.html 994 C0 |bLHM 852 0 |bstacks |hPZ7.W96362 |iN5 2006