Focusing upon the life of Chaya Walkin--one little girl from a
distinguished Torah lineage in Poland--this book illustrates the inner
resources of the refugee community that made possible survival with
dignity.
Based on a wide variety of sources and languages, this book is crafted
around the voice of a child who was five years old when she was forced
to flee her home in Poland and start the terrifying journey to Vilna,
Kobe, and Shanghai. The Song of Songs is used to provide an unexpected
and poetic angle of vision upon strategies for creating meaning in times
of historical trauma.