The seamstress

by Sara Tuvel Bernstein, Marlene Bernstein Samuels, Louise Loots Thornton et al.

1997 353 pages eng

From its opening pages, in which she recounts her own premature birth, triggered by terrifying rumors of an incipient pogrom, Bernstein's tale is clearly not a typical memoir of the Holocaust. She was born into a large family in rural Romania and grew up feisty and willing to fight back physically a…