An Apple Tree for Anna
An Apple Tree for Anna
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In 1940, five-year-old Hannah, later renamed Anna, must abruptly flee through a rat-infested sewer to the safety of an orphanage in war-devastated Warsaw, Poland. She loses everything: her home, her family, her country, her sense of self.
When she receives a precious gift of five apple seeds, they become a symbol of hope and survival. She carries the seeds in a tattered, dirty scrap of linen through seven countries over nine years until she arrives in Canada, where she longs for a permanent and safe home.
With its basis in the true story of a large group of intensely bonded Polish orphans displaced by World War II, An Apple Tree for Anna is a fictionalized account of one child’s journey from frigid Siberia to tropical Tanganyika (now Tanzania) to a foster home in Canada.
Anna’s story is a moving testament to the power of the human spirit to surmount terror, suffering and loss.
Format: Paperback