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Name: Displaced persons
Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Author: Ghita Schwarz

After enduring the brutality of World War II concentration camps, siblings Pavel, Fela, and Chaim flee to America. Their story spans decades as they build families, seek peace, and confront the unexpected ways their past shapes the new culture they adopt.

First publish date: 2010

Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction

Authors: Ghita Schwarz

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