The Diaries

By Jan Schwartz

Plagued by the fate of her older sister, Pearl and her family escape their small town in the Ukraine before it burns to the ground during a pogrom. As she adjusts to a new life in America, the Great War breaks out, and her family is cut off from Etta completely. Trapped in a city devastated by war, Etta lives day to day in the face of poverty and disease. Battles surround her and the taxes are steep under the mean fist of changing governments. Her faith gives her the strength to survive until her perilous escape.At the same time, Pearl blossoms into a teenager at the start of the Roaring Twenties. At fifteen, she meets Leo at a dance. Theirs is a love story that was to endure for seventy years, but Leo's family put up roadblocks from the beginning. His mother's bravery that had once saved her husband from imprisonment in Siberia was fraught with trauma and changed the course of her life forever.The Diaries is an inspirational story of love, adventure and survival, with an unending commitment to family. This work of fiction, based on my grandmother's stories of what they endured, reflect a small part of a vast history of immigration to this country a hundred years ago, a history that shouldn't be forgotten.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1973120127
• ISBN13: 9781973120124
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 113 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"