September 1, 2020
The story of the Holocaust and Bucharest Jews in Romania is a history not known. Gift of Diamonds narrates this as the main protagonist, 17-year-old Mica, escapes Transylvania with a cache of rare colored diamonds that her father has hidden in their basement. He received them from an inmate at Auschwitz who had escaped and found his way to the Resistance headquarters in Bucharest searching for a visa to Sweden and the U.S. Mica uses the diamonds to escape to US/ NY and then free her parents from prison in Transylvania. You can find a reader’s guide for Roberta Seret’s trilogy here.