{"product_id":"chance-escape-from-the-holocaust-memories-of-a-refugee-childhood","title":"Chance: Escape from the Holocaust: Memories of a Refugee Childhood","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Harrowing, engaging and utterly honest.” ―Elizabeth Wein, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A captivating chronicle of eight turbulent years.” ―The Wall Street Journal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA “Best Book of the Year” from: The New York Times ● Publishers Weekly ● Kirkus Reviews ● Booklist ● Jewish Journal ● Horn Book ● Chicago Public Library\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA National Jewish Book Award Finalist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom celebrated Caldecott Award–winning illustrator Uri Shulevitz comes a landmark World War II memoir of hope amid harrowing times and an engaging and unusual Holocaust story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn September 1939 , as German bombs started falling on Warsaw, four-year-old Uri Shulevitz sat still while his mother tied new boots on his feet and told him, “We’ll need to walk a lot.” So begins Uri’s arduous eight-year journey with his family, fleeing Poland and the Nazi onslaught for a precarious existence in the Soviet Union. From the freezing wilderness confines of a labor camp all the way north near the White Sea to hunger-filled years of displacement all the way south in the city of Turkestan, Uri recounts the lucky breaks and setbacks that happened to him and his parents along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePowerfully illustrated by the author and with a few surviving personal photographs and mementos, Chance: Escape from the Holocaust also depicts young Uri’s awakening as an artist, whose love of making pictures helped sustain him. Altogether, this is a unique, enthralling memoir of a displaced childhood from the beloved Caldecott medalist, the capstone to a remarkable career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDon’t miss Uri Shulevitz’s stunning final published work, The Sky Was My Blanket: A Young Man’s Journey Across Wartime Europe, a gripping true story of a young Polish exile fighting to survive in war-torn Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paige's Book Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46995095945436,"sku":"9781250370655","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/8530\/6332\/files\/9781250370655.jpg?v=1759882428","url":"https:\/\/paigesbooks.com\/products\/chance-escape-from-the-holocaust-memories-of-a-refugee-childhood","provider":"Paige's Book Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}