![]() ![]() ![]() After hearing of the atrocities of the Holocaust, Josef joined a resistance group to rescue the victims. Josef too was a target during the Holocaust due to his homosexuality. Upon finding Josef, Becca learns his story. Becca sets out to find Josef and learn more about her grandmother's experiences in Chelmno. ![]() Becca travels to Poland to visit Chelmno and learns of a link between her grandmother and a man named Josef Potocki. Becca learns that her grandmother was a Holocaust survivor and that Gemma was imprisoned at Chelmno in Poland. She begins to suspect that the story has much greater significance than she may have originally thought. Following her grandmother's death in the present, Becca Berlin recalls the story of Sleeping Beauty, which her grandmother, Gemma, told her and her sisters many times. This time Yolen ties the story to the German fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty, sometimes called Briar Rose. In Briar Rose Yolen again presents a link between the present and the past as she did in The Devil's Arithmetic. After watching the documentary film Shoah, which focused on the concentration camp Chelmno, and talking to her editor about the stories of survivors there, she began work on the novel. After writing The Devil's Arithmetic, author Jane Yolen revisited the topic of the Holocaust in another novel: Briar Rose. ![]()
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