No One Is Here Except All of Us

from alaskabookworm

No One is Here Except All of Us by Ramona Ausubel is a lyrical and surprising book about the Holocaust. A strange woman washes up on the river-shore of an isolated Romanian village, and in the story of how she arrived there, simultaneously embodies the promise of future destruction and hope. Clin...

from Litfan

When there is physically nowhere left to run, when you've been chased and persecuted to the corners of the earth, the only refuge left is in story. The members of a small, rural Jewish village in Romania are terror-struck when news of an impending war reaches them. Having nowhere else to run, the...

from ntempest

This is a beautifully written book that gives a very different look at World War II and the Holocaust. The story centers on a small village in Romania where the horrors of the war filter in bit by bit. Determined to keep the violence and upheaval out of their own lives, the villagers agree to iso...

from JackieBlem

First they see bomber planes fly over their houses at the beginning of WWII. Then a refugee who threw herself into the river after seeing her husband and children killed washes up on their riverbank. Aghast at what they learn from her, this small village of 102 people decide that the best way to ...

from mrstreme

In a small village in Romania, a group of Jewish residents lived in relative harmony. Their village was on a small peninsula where a tiny strip of land connected it to the mainland. One evening, as they gathered for prayer, they witnessed a plane bomb the other side of the mountain. War had final...