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If you want to know the real story about the deportees of Second World War, the witness of one of them might interest you

AUTHOR: SAMI MODIANO
PUBLICATION DATE: 2013

Sami Modiano was born in Rodi in 1930. He is one of the last survivors of Auschwitz and now he takes care of Rodi’s synagogue

If you want to know the real story about the deportees of Second World War, the witness of one of them might interest you

PLOT...

Sami was born in Rodi in 1930, an island where everyone lived in peace, ruined by racial laws. At the age of 13 he was deported with his family that will die. Sami is the only one who saves himself and escapes. Sami finds himself on the front line with the Soviet Army and is then forced to flee on foot across half of Europe and then arrives in an Italy brought to its knees by the war. After two years of unsafes jobs and bad housing, but cheered by his friends and the discovery of love, when Sami was seventeen decided to leave again, this time in the Belgian Congo. Here he will be successful professionally but new dangers await him, at the outbreak of the civil war. The story of Sami Modiano is a plot interwoven with farewells and departures to which he has always opposed the determination to regain possession of his roots.

Sami was born in Rodi in 1930, an island where everyone lived in peace, ruined by racial laws. At the age of 13 he was deported with his family that will die. Sami is the only one who saves himself and escapes. Sami finds himself on the front line with the Soviet Army and is then forced to flee on foot across half of Europe and then arrives in an Italy brought to its knees by the war. After two years of unsafes jobs and bad housing, but cheered by his friends and the discovery of love, when Sami was seventeen decided to leave again, this time in the Belgian Congo. Here he will be successful professionally but new dangers await him, at the outbreak of the civil war. The story of Sami Modiano is a plot interwoven with farewells and departures to which he has always opposed the determination to regain possession of his roots.

OUR PRAISE...

Thanks to this book we were able to identify with the story even if it happened lots of years ago. Even if it is a sad story, is something that happened for real and this can help us understanding more the situation they were in. We think that is suitable for teenagers who approach this topic.

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