The Freedom Circus

The Freedom Circus
Author :
Publisher : Random House Australia
Total Pages : 322
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781760890315
ISBN-13 : 1760890316
Rating : 4/5 (316 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Freedom Circus by : Sue Smethurst

Download or read book The Freedom Circus written by Sue Smethurst and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A story of extraordinary bravery, resilience and love that needed to be told.' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz Written by award-winning author and journalist Sue Smethurst, whose husband is Mindla and Michael’s grandson, The Freedom Circus is an epic story of courage, hope, humanity, survival and, ultimately, love. When Sue Smethurst first sat down with her grandmother-in-law and asked how she survived the Holocaust, she was shooed away. By that time Mindla was in a Melbourne Jewish nursing home with other survivors, her body ageing but mind still razor sharp. ‘Why do you want to know?’ she’d ask. ‘My story is nothing special.’ As death began approaching Sue became a little more pushy. She knew Mindla’s life had to be recorded and they were running out of time. Each week she’d bring cake from her favourite shop in St Kilda, a bottle of the brightest nail polish she could find, a handful of old pictures and her tape recorder. They’d chat and paint Mindla’s nails, and with each ‘chat’ her story unfolded. It was beyond anything Sue could have imagined. The tale of how Mindla and her husband Michael Horowitz, a circus performer for the famous Staniewski Brothers, escaped from Poland with their young son and embarked on a terrifying journey through the USSR and Middle East to Africa and ultimately to safety in Australia, is nothing short of extraordinary.


The Freedom Circus Related Books

The Freedom Circus
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Sue Smethurst
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-03 - Publisher: Random House Australia

GET EBOOK

'A story of extraordinary bravery, resilience and love that needed to be told.' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz Written by award-winning au
The Night Circus
Language: en
Pages: 389
Authors: Erin Morgenstern
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-13 - Publisher: Anchor

GET EBOOK

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two starcrossed magicians engage in a deadly game of cunning in the spellbinding novel that captured the world's imagination. • "Pa
The Circus in Winter
Language: en
Pages: 307
Authors: Cathy Day
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-07-06 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

GET EBOOK

Over a half century, a small Indiana town hosts a circus troupe during the off-seasons in linked stories “as graceful as any acrobat’s high-wire act” (San
Circus Fantastico
Language: en
Pages: 40
Authors: Lynn Gordon
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-07-27 - Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

GET EBOOK

Madame Fantastico's traveling circus is down on its luck, and when the show's props begin to disappear, Ella the elephant takes center stage to find out why. Th
Circus of Wonders
Language: en
Pages: 384
Authors: Elizabeth Macneal
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-02-01 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

GET EBOOK

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the “lush, evocative Gothic” (The New York Times Book Review) The Doll Factory comes an atmospheric and sp