The Champions of my Childhood - Naomi Goldrei wiesel and rituals-and inspiring us to

and rituals-and inspiring us to reexamine our own relationship with tradition

John Irving lives in Toronto

her father was unaccountably missing

this book reveals the presence of a Jewish cultural heritage and important synagogue architecture in Sydney

The Champions of my Childhood - Naomi Goldrei wiesel and rituals-and inspiring us toIn the early autumn of 1943, three year old Naomi and her grandmother were evicted from their home in Sosnowiec in Western Poland and incarcerated in the nearby ghetto in Srodula. Within hours, one of the champions of her childhood appeared her beloved Niania, her mother's old nanny who claimed the child as her own and spirited her away to a farm belonging to an acquaintance of Naomi's uncle Lutek. She and her family willingly became Naomi's next