David and Sophie become very popular. Sophie t...

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  • David and Sophie become very popular. Sophie tells fairy-tales and fables or makes up stories of her own, distracting her listners' attention from barbed wire, the guards, the lice and the hunger. Inactivity is driving David mad, so he decides to start a small school. The parents like David's idea. He requires no payment but if they would share a small portion of additional food, he would be grateful. By the end of the week, he has eight students, the followig, ten.

  • 1943-11-00
  • 1943-11-00
  • education, private/everyday life
  • children, outside of Warsaw

  • The memories of David Gilbert are written by Tim Shortridge and Michael D. Frounfelter.

  • 199-200

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