Royal Threads

By Helen Iranyi and Judith Rosengarten Irany

Summer, 1914. The weather was especially hot in Latvia and people from Moscow stayed longer than usual in the cottages along the Baltic. Then the news of war frightened the Muscovites and they fled. But nobody sensed the horror everyone was going to live through. Royal Threads is our mother's story, a raw saga of historical significance about how she survived World War I and the Russian Revolution as a child. When she was ten, people were shot in front of her.Our mother, who had taught us middle-class kids to say please and thank you, had been a smuggler on the black market in Danzig when she was twelve. As a teenager, she went on to be a movie extra in Berlin in the early 1920's and a translator of German into English - - although she only knew a few words of English.One by one, her nine brothers and sisters and her mother escaped from the tyranny of "that bastard, the tsar". These Latvian Jews left the only home that had been in their family for centuries and ended up in places like Shawinigan Falls and Montreal and South Africa. 73 photos, maps and illustrations.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1482562693
• ISBN13: 9781482562699
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"