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Escape in Time

WRITTEN BY RONIT LOWENSTEIN-MALZ
ILLUSTRATED BY LAURIE McGAW
TRANSLATED BY LEORA FRANKEL

Nessya’s grandmother, Miri Eneman Malz, has friends, a loving family–and a secret: she is a Holocaust survivor.

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  • ​• Pages: 176
    • Age Range: 12 to adult
    • Pub Date: 4/16/2015
    • Size: 5.25 x 8 inches
    • ISBNs:
    Paperback: 978-0990843030
    Epub: 978-0990843047
    Mobi: 978-0990843054

  • Holocaust, Hungary, history, family, courage, love, ingenuity, luck, rescue, survival

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Nessya’s grandmother, Miri Eneman Malz, has friends, a loving family–and a secret: she is a Holocaust survivor. When twelve-year-old Nessya learns the truth, she wants to know what happened. After decades of silence, Grandma Miri decides it’s time to tell her story. It all begins one terrible day in the spring of 1944, when Germany crosses Hungary’s border and soldiers arrive in Miri’s hometown of Munkács. Suddenly, the Jews are trapped and in danger. Surrounded by war and unimaginable hatred, the family makes a daring escape. But that is only the beginning, and over the course of the year new threats continually confront them. Incredibly, despite numerous close calls, they defy the odds and live. Based upon actual memoirs, this is the story of the Eneman family . . . of their remarkable ingenuity, astonishing luck, boundless courage, and unending love.

 Reviews

“This enthralling book will be an asset in the history classroom when studying World War II and the Holocaust.”

—CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, CATHI I. WHITE


“The characters are crisply differentiated, superb illustrations help us relate to them, and suspense runs high.”

—JEWISH BOOK WORLD, PHIL JASON


“The novel is an immersive page-turner . . .” ​

—KIRKUS REVIEWS


“Miri Malz has never told anyone what she and her family went through during World War II. When her granddaughter, Nessi, discovers that Miri was in fact a Holocaust survivor, she wants to know the whole story. Thus begins an amazing tale of survival. . . . [T]his perspective, of a family who used incredible and creative methods to stay alive, can be a fine addition to the Holocaust shelf.”

—THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH LIBRARIES, KATHY BLOOMFIELD, JUNE 2016

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