TY  - BOOK
AU  - Signy,Helen
TI  - Maya's dance
SN  - 9781761421419 (paperback)
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Cammeray, NSW
PB  - Simon & Schuster (Australia)
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Jews
KW  - Poland
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Dancers
KW  - Women Nazi concentration camp inmates
KW  - Nazi concentration camp guards
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Holocaust survivors
KW  - Journalists
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Romance fiction
KW  - Australian fiction
N1  - "Based on an incredible true Holocaust story"--Cover; Includes reading group questions
N2  - Our dance. Do you remember how I spun and twirled? How I became more than a Jewish girl with battered shoes and dirty clothes I became a part of the air, the trees, the sun. We did not know then what it would mean, how that dance would change our lives ... 1942, Sawin, Poland: seventeen-year-old Maya Schulze is struggling to survive in a brutal Nazi labour camp. But despite days filled with hunger, fear and despair, she is able to find courage and beauty in dancing it is only then that she feels free. One day a camp guard watches Maya perform, and both their destinies are changed for ever. Jan falls in love with Maya and promises to protect her; Maya lives for their stolen moments together, when her heart can dance again. Jan ultimately plots Maya's escape and promises to find her when the war is over, but fate cruelly intervenes. Fifty years on, having received news that changes everything for her, Maya tells her story to journalist Kate Young. As their friendship grows, they piece together the clues to find Jan before it's too late
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