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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Last witnesses
    sub title: adapted for young adults
  title info:
    title: Poslednie svideteli. English
  name:
    name part: Aleksievich, Svetlana
    name part: 1948-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Pevear, Richard
    name part: 1943-
    role:
      role term: translator.
  name:
    name part: Volokhonsky, Larissa
    role:
      role term: translator.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: pol
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 264 pages : illustration, map ; 22 cm.
  abstract: A collection of personal narratives told by those who were children during World War II and survived harrowing experiences. So many children were separated from their loved ones in the midst of the terror and chaos. As a result, some grew up in orphanages or were raised by grandparents or extended family. Others were taken in and cared for by strangers who risked punishment for such acts. Still others lived on their own or became underage soldiers. These oral histories of survival reveal the heart-rending details of life during wartime while reminding us that resilience is possible, no matter the circumstances.
  table of contents: He was afraid to look back ... -- My first and last cigarette ... -- Grandma prayed ...She asked that my soul come back ... -- They lay pink on the cinders ... -- I still want my mama ... -- Such pretty German toys ... -- And I kissed all the portraits in my schoolbook ... -- I gathered them with my hands...They were very white ... -- I want to live! I want to live! ... -- Through a buttonhole ... -- All I heard was mama's cry ... -- We played, and the soldiers wept ... -- In the cemetery the dead lay above ground ...as if they'd been killed again ... -- I realized -- this was my father ...My knees trembled ... -- My little brother cries, because he wasn't there when papa was there ... -- That girl was the first to come ... -- We ask: can we lick it? ... -- ... an extra half-spoon of sugar -- Dear house, don't burn! Dear house, don't burn! ... -- Auntie, take me on your knees ... -- ... and began to rock her like a doll -- They had already bought me a primer ... -- He wiped his tears with his sleeve ... -- You'll be my children now ... -- We kissed their hands ... -- I looked at them with a little girl's eyes ... -- Our mama didn't smile ... -- I couldn't get used to my name ... -- As if she had saved his own daughter ... -- And why am I so small? ... -- They were drawn by the human scent ... -- Why did they shoot her in the face? My mama was so beautiful ... -- And I didn't even have a scarf on ... -- No one to play outside with ... -- I'll open the window at night ...And give the pages to the wind ... -- Dig here ... -- Grandpa was buried under the window ... -- I'll buy myself a dress with a little bow ... -- How did he die, if there was no shooting today? ... -- Because we're girls, and he's a boy ... -- You're no brother of mine if you play with German boys ... -- We even forgot that word ... -- You should go to the front, but you fall in love with my mama ... -- These two boys became light as sparrows ... -- I was embarrassed to be wearing girl's shoes ... -- …
  target audience: juvenile
  note: Svetlana Alexievich ; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-ur---
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Children
    geographic: Soviet Union
    genre: Juvenile literature
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    geographic: Soviet Union
    genre: Personal narratives
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Children
    geographic: Soviet Union
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    genre: Personal narratives, Soviet
  classification: D810.C4 A44213 2021
  classification: 940.53/47
  identifier: 9780593308530
  identifier: 0593308530
  identifier: 9780593308547
  identifier: 0593308549
  identifier: 9780593308554
  identifier: 2021937880
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210426
    record change date: 20220830135410.9
    record identifier: in00004591959