Summary of Mala Kacenberg's Mala's Cat

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Book Preview:#1 I was born into an observant Jewish family in Tarnogród, Poland. My father, Yitzchak Szorer, left for Uruguay on a business venture in the early 1930s. He returned to Tarnogród two years later, and began a business leasing fruit orchards. We were never rich, but we managed to exist on the profits of those fruit.

#2 I enjoyed life to the fullest, never expecting more from it than my parents could afford to give me. I was always grateful for what I had. I loved playing with the pebbles that lined the bottom of the Nitka River, and I became an expert at it.

#3 In 1936, severe hailstorms ruined the crops in my town, and the local economy suffered. The situation was not always enough money for my family, but we still had to make our clothes last for a long time.

#4 I can still see the sad look on my mother’s face as she said goodbye to her son every morning. We could not complain to the police, since we were afraid of them too.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 2, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669355038

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Contents

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Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was born into an observant Jewish family in Tarnogród, Poland. My father, Yitzchak Szorer, left for Uruguay on a business venture in the early 1930s. He returned to Tarnogród two years later, and began a business leasing fruit orchards. We were never rich, but we managed to exist on the profits of those fruit.

#2

I enjoyed life to the fullest, never expecting more from it than my parents could afford to give me. I was always grateful for what I had. I loved playing with the pebbles that lined the bottom of the Nitka River, and I became an expert at it.

#3

In 1936, severe hailstorms ruined the crops in my town, and the local economy suffered. The situation was not always enough money for my family, but we still had to make our clothes last for a long time.

#4

I can still see the sad look on my mother’s face as she said goodbye to her son every morning. We could not complain to the police, since we were afraid of them too.

#5

As the war continued to go badly for the Jews, my family’s situation became dire. We were reduced to extreme poverty, and we could not even afford to buy the much-needed eiderdowns. We made our own eiderdowns, which added physical warmth and comfort to the freezing Polish winter.

#6

I had many interests as a child, including school, and I loved it. I was always top of my class, and my parents were very proud of me. I was also very disciplined, and did not waste what little money I had.

#7

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