![]() ![]() ![]() The Nazis send Izio to a work camp, and Emilika helps Stefania forge papers so she can take a train to see him. Stefania sneaks into the ghetto to bring the Diamants food. With the building empty, Stefania makes friends with Emilika, who works at a photo studio. The Diamants, along with the rest of the Jews, move to a ghetto. Diamant while she’s walking outside and take her boots. People vandalize the Diamants’ shop, and Nazis stop Mrs. Nazis occupy Stefania’s side, and they spread virulent antisemitism. When Nazi Germany declares war on Russia, the bombing starts again. There’s surreal destruction, and Stefania and the Diamants must hide in a cellar. The Nazis make a pact with Russia, and Russia takes over Stefania’s side of Przemyśl. World War II begins, and Nazi Germany invades Poland. She moves in with them and starts a romantic relationship with one of the sons, Izio. They’re Jewish, and Stefania is Catholic, but the family welcomes her warmly, and Stefania grows close to Mrs. At 13, she moves to a big city, Przemyśl, and lives with two of her older sisters. Stefania Podgórska hates her idyllic childhood on her farm in Poland. ![]() The page numbers in the study guide refer to an eBook version of the 2020 Scholastic Press edition.Ĭontent Warning: The source material contains violence, antisemitism, and countless traumas that inevitably correspond to Holocaust narratives. ![]()
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Now the nation's favourite footballer wants to show YOU how to achieve your dreams, in this positive and inspiring guide for life. Marcus Rashford, MBE, is famous worldwide for his skills both on and off the pitch-but before he was a Manchester United and England footballer, and long before he started his inspiring campaign to end child food poverty, he was just an ordinary kid from Wythenshawe, South Manchester. I want to show you how you can be a champion in almost anything you put your mind to. ![]() ![]() ![]() Outward appearances are calmly noted: the grey classroom with its humming computer "projecting a blank blue rectangle on to the wall" the faces and gestures of the students themselves, one with "a demolished beauty she bore quite regally", one "whose expression I had watched grow sourer and sourer as the hour passed", each of them a study in shyness, charm, naivety, smugness or some other sharply observed quality. But Cusk, who has a gift for making the most mundane situations compelling, plunges right in, emerging with a miniature tour de force of human portraiture and storytelling virtuosity. It doesn't perhaps sound like the most riveting premise for a scene, and there must be plenty of people in the creative writing business who have resisted doing their own version of it, wary of the risks of literary shop-talk. I n one of many remarkable passages in Rachel Cusk's new novel, the narrator, an English writer who has flown to Athens for a few days to teach a writing workshop, gives a detailed account of her first class, in which she asks each of the 10 students to talk about something they noticed on their way in. ![]() ![]() The central patient this time around is Billy Prior, a lieutenant tormentedīy fugue states, blank spots in his memory during which he seems to operate outside his own control. ![]() In World War I, and particularly with the poet Siegfried Sassoon. 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