LIGHT IN HIDDEN PLACES

Narrator Beata Pozniak's authentic accent carries listeners into this gripping true account of Stefania (Fusia) Podgorska. Fusia leaves her country home to live and work with the Diamants, a Jewish family in the town of Przemysl, Poland. Pozniak portrays how Fusia thrives with the loving family--until Nazis arrive and the Diamant family is sent to the ghetto and Fusia's beloved Izio Diamant is transported to a concentration camp. As Pozniak contrasts the guards' coldness with Fusia's horror and guilt, she develops a plan to rescue Izio. Pozniak increases the tension as this compelling heroine juggles cold, poverty, and terror with nurturing her young sister, maintaining a job, and hiding 13 Jews in the attic of an apartment she has to share with Nazis. The author reads the afterword. S.W. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine [Published: APRIL 2020]