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Shores Beyond Shores

By: Irene Butter, John D. Bidwell - contributor, Kris Holloway - contributor
Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
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Summary

As her Pappi fights to save his family during the Holocaust, Irene's childhood is lost. Play is restricted. Family and friends disappear. Finally, with the Dutch police at their door comes the reality that Irene's father has not moved his family far enough from Hitler's Germany.

By January 1945, the family is struggling to survive a death camp. Irene tends her ailing parents, cares for starving kids, and even helps bring clothes to her Amsterdam neighbor Anne Frank, before her family is offered a singular chance for freedom...providing the Nazi doctor says they are healthy enough. After two weeks of heart-lifting miracles and heart-breaking tragedies, Irene arrives in the Algerian desert to journey into redemption and womanhood, without her parents or brother.

Irene's first-person memoir, Shores Beyond Shores, is an account of how the heart keeps its common humanity in the most inhumane and turbulent of times. Irene's hard-earned lessons are a timeless inspiration.

©2018 Irene Butter, John D. Bidwell, and Kris Holloway (P)2018 Tantor
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great explanation of the camps

very good oration and written well. explanation of life in the camps is realistic as is thought of the child concerned

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Such a touching narrative of holocaust survivor.

There are no words to say for a family who have survived so much.
Anything I said would not have gravity to truly describe this harrowing account .







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an amazing read

I recommend that this heartbreaking story should be shared fat and wide, in. hope that nothing is. ever repeated in future. it also shows the great courage this author shows by sharing her story and for simply surviving. Alo g with many more Jews, she is truly amazing. Thank you for sharing your story with the world.

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