![]() ![]() ![]() While traveling aboard a ship bound for Rio de Janeiro, Addy meets a young Czech woman named Eliska and falls in love with her, though he worries constantly about his family back in Poland. ![]() Addy deserts from the army and meets a diplomat from Brazil who provides him with a visa to travel there. Genek is taken into custody by Soviet police, and when he refuses to claim Soviet citizenship on a form, he and his wife Herta are sent to a work camp in Siberia. Addy joins the Polish division of the French Army. The Nazis force Halina to work on a beet farm and Mila to work in a uniform workshop. The Kurcs are forced from their home and into one of Radom's two Jewish ghettos. The rights of the Jews are severely curtailed Jewish ceremonies and traditions are forbidden, but Jakob secretly marries his girlfriend Bella, and Halina secretly marries her boyfriend, Adam. Genek, Jacob, and Mila's husband Selim join the Polish Army, which is quickly defeated by the invading German and Soviet armies. Nechuma is living in Radom with her husband Sol, and their other children, Genek, Jakob, Halina, and Mila, and Mila's four-month-old daughter Felicia. ![]() He has received a letter from his mother, Nechuma, warning him not to return to Poland because of the threat of invasion by the Nazis. The novel begins in Paris where Addy, middle son of the Kurc family, is living as a composer. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Hunter, Georgia. ![]()
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