![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That talent-and her blond hair, blue eyes, and overall Gentile appearance-allowed her entry into the highest reaches of Romanian society, albeit as a dressmaker. Ashamed to return home after her expulsion, she looked for work in Bucharest and discovered a talent for dressmaking. She defied her father's orders to turn down a scholarship that took her to Bucharest, and got herself expelled from that school when she responded to a priest/teacher's vicious diatribe against the Jews by hurling a bottle of ink at him. She was born into a large family in rural Romania between the wars and grew up feisty and willing to fight back physically against anti-Semitism from other schoolchildren. From its opening pages, in which she recounts her own premature birth, triggered by terrifying rumors of an incipient pogrom, Bernstein's tale is clearly not a typical memoir of the Holocaust. A striking Holocaust memoir, posthumously published, by a Romanian Jew with an unusual story to tell. ![]()
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