Wormwood fir
19.99 €
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Wormwood fir
19.99 €
What to do if your family is far away from home, from everything familiar and native, and you don't even have a tree before Christmas? You can dress up a branch of wormwood: cut fringe from an old tattered book, mold dough lambs, chickens, horses. It will turn out black and white, but very beautiful! Five-year-old Marijhe knows that in the morning there will be a present on the plate under such a tree, because she has behaved well, almost well, all year long. Christmas remains a holiday always - even in the unfamiliar Siberian land, where Mariikhe and her family were sent with the beginning of the war. Childhood memory retains only fragmentary memories, only fragments of parental explanations about how and why it happened. The heavy tread of history is muffled, the girl barely hears it - and she remembers quiet moments of joy, moments of everyday grief, fragile images that at first glance say nothing about the era of the 1940s. Mariiche, her sisters Mina and Lilya, their mother, Aunt Jozefina and her son Theodore, their friends and neighbors in Rivne-Polye - Russian Germans. And although they are, as their father explained to the girls, "good Germans" and not "fascists", they are forbidden to live in their native places: what if they go over to the enemy's side? No matter how difficult it is for the family to move, good people help them cope - there are such people in any area, in any nation, at any time.
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