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HIDING IN THE SPOTLIGHT By: Greg Dawson
A Musical Prodigy's Story of Survival, 1941-1946
Pegasus
July 2009
On Sale: June 27, 2009
Featuring: Zhanna
288 pages ISBN: 1605980455 EAN: 9781605980454 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
Zhanna, a young Jewish girl from Ukraine, also happens to be a gifted piano prodigy and is giving concerts by the age of six. When disaster strikes her hometown and her family is condemned to exile and execution, Zhanna manages to escape the famed Nazi death march to Dorbitsky Yar and uses her rare musical gift to help her survive. Performing and giving concerts for the occupying German troops as they move throughout Europe, Zhanna keeps her true identity a secret until a young American soldier with ties to Julliard adopts her. Upon her emigration to America, Zhannaβs gift flourishes and she becomes one of the first Jewish refugees to enter Juilliard.
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