New York, N.Y. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1990. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. Format is 7.5 inches by 8.75 inches. [10], 110, [6] pages. Illustrated with 94 paintings (some in color) and drawings. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, To Ronnie & Dave Hirschberg, With best wishes, Toby Knobel Fluek. Includes Acknowledgments, and chapters on My Family at Work; Preparations for the Sabbath; The Holidays; Our Neighbors; The Russian Occupation; The German Occupation, and Liberation. This jewel of a memoir--told in Toby Fluek's own moving and beautiful paintings and drawings and her equally moving text--is the story of a young Jewish girl growing up in a Polish farm village, from the peaceful early 1930s through the tragic war years, and finding safe harbor at last. Scene by scene, person by person, Toby Fluek unfurls a unique view of Jewish life. She introduces us to her village, to her family, to the people among whom they lived, Jewish and Catholic; she shows us what they did, how they fared, how customs and holidays were observed--and, with both feeling and restraint, illustrates how this long-enduring way of life was disrupted and shattered by World War II. She takes her family through Russian occupation, through the devastation wreaked by the Nazis and, finally, to a new beginning in America. After the war, Fluek and her mother were sent to multiple displaced persons (DP) camps, eventually making their way to Bad Wörishofen where Fluek's mother was treated in the DP hospital while the pair waited to immigrate to the United States. Fluek met and married her husband, Abraham, in the DP camp before relocating to the Bronx, New York, in December 1949. More