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Behind Melanie's trauma lies the extraordinary story of how a young American
girl became an internee at the Nazi camp of Drancy ir n '' '""v-namp to Auschwitz-
the uu- friendship of an English boy, Christopher Lewis, and her 1f appointed ...
Behind Melanie's trauma lies the extraordinary story of how a young American
girl became an internee at the Nazi camp of Drancy ir n '' '""v-namp to Auschwitz-
the uu- friendship of an English boy, Christopher Lewis, and her 1f appointed ...
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Then from the starvation and beatings of Drancy to Auschwitz. And after
Auschwitz? Worse, no doubt, horrors that only the puppet- maker museum would
dare to catalogue. Whistling all the while, a busy saint making more survivor
puppets ...
Then from the starvation and beatings of Drancy to Auschwitz. And after
Auschwitz? Worse, no doubt, horrors that only the puppet- maker museum would
dare to catalogue. Whistling all the while, a busy saint making more survivor
puppets ...
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But the puppet-maker marries. The puppet-maker makes a baby. Then he
abandons it. The night his new puppets are to leave for Auschwitz, the puppet-
maker confesses that not only did he cause the death of a perfectly innocent wife,
but he ...
But the puppet-maker marries. The puppet-maker makes a baby. Then he
abandons it. The night his new puppets are to leave for Auschwitz, the puppet-
maker confesses that not only did he cause the death of a perfectly innocent wife,
but he ...
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| Title | Emotional arithmetic |
| Author | Matt Cohen |
| Publisher | Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1990 |
| ISBN | 0886193621, 9780886193621 |
| Length | 201 pages |
| Subjects | › Canadian fiction Fiction / General Fiction / Historical |
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