Drawing allows him to escape into his imagination and ward off loneliness. What sustains him are his mother’s storytelling, which instills in him an enduring passion for stories, and drawing to pass the endless hours. Shulevitz shares experiences of hunger, deprivation, and anti-Semitism while living in makeshift abodes and tiny apartments and enduring endless train rides. First sent to the Archangel region, after the Germans invade Russia they travel to Turkestan in the Central Asian Kazakh Republic, where, as a 7-year-old, Uri wonders at a way of life that is completely unfamiliar. When the Germans invade Poland in 1939, 4-year-old Uri and his parents flee from Warsaw to Soviet-occupied Bialystok, where they are considered enemies of Soviet Russia and denied citizenship. The award-winning author and illustrator recounts his harrowing childhood as a Polish Jew during World War II.
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