Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch is the acclaimed author of over sixteen picture books and novels.In 2013 she won the Silver Birch Fiction Award for Making Bombs for Hitler and the Red Cedar Award for Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue from War.
Her new novel is Don't Tell the Nazis.
From Skrypuch's Q&A with Deborah Kalb:
A: Don’t Tell the Nazis was inspired by the true story of Kateryna Sikorska and her daughter Krystia, who hid three Jewish friends under their kitchen floor during the Holocaust.Visit Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's website.
Krystia's daughter, journalist and filmmaker Iryna Korpan, approached me in 2012 at a public event. She handed me a copy of her excellent documentary called She Paid the Ultimate Price, then explained that it was about her own mother’s and grandmother’s heroic actions in World War II Ukraine.
She asked if I would consider writing a book about it. After reviewing the documentary and doing some preliminary research, I agreed.
Q: How did you research the book?
A: I interviewed Krystia at length and she answered my questions as they came up. Krystia herself was only...[read on]
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