The Champions of my Childhood - Naomi Goldrei wiesel Harpercollins Publishers

Harpercollins Publishers

and rituals-and inspiring us to reexamine our own relationship with tradition

Featuring colour illustrations based on Stella's family photographs

her father was unaccountably missing

John Irving lives in Toronto

The Champions of my Childhood - Naomi Goldrei wiesel Harpercollins PublishersIn the early autumn of 1943, three year old Naomi and her grandmother were evicted from their home in Sosnowiec in Western Poland and incarcerated in the nearby ghetto in Srodula. Within hours, one of the champions of her childhood appeared her beloved Niania, her mother's old nanny who claimed the child as her own and spirited her away to a farm belonging to an acquaintance of Naomi's uncle Lutek. She and her family willingly became Naomi's next