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Author: Joanna Rudnia\u0144ska<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Illustrator: Jacek Ambro\u017cewski<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Year: 2012<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Publisher: Muchomor<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Place of publication: Warszawa<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Pages: 57<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
ISBN: 9788389774606<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Cover courtesy of the publisher. \u00a9Muchomor 2012<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Joanna Rudnia\u0144ska tells a story of two twins separated at birth \u2013 Hania X and Hania Y \u2013 brought up in two different families, a Jewish and a Polish one. When the Warsaw Ghetto<\/a> is created, seven-year-old Hania X\u2019s family must move from their large apartment in Pi\u0119kna Street to her grandparents\u2019 crammed and crowded apartment in Twarda Street. The girls\u2019 first encounter of which they are aware takes place when Hania Y rides the tram through the Ghetto with her family. Once she returns home, she asks in despair whether she also is Jewish. Her parents tell her the story of the twins\u2019 separation right after birth. In 1942, there comes the time of the mass transports to extermination camps<\/a>. Hania X escapes from the Ghetto (and her family dies). She finds herself in the countryside, where she reunites with her sister. In order to survive, they pretend to be one person. After the end of the war, the girls, now twelve years old, return to Warsaw and start a life with Hania Y\u2019s parents.<\/span><\/p>\n

In XY<\/i>, the author uses the convention of a fairytale, narrating the birth of the girls and their hiding through motifs and tropes from traditional tales and folk fables. The depiction of the Holocaust from two perspectives \u2013 a victim\u2019s and a witness\u2019 \u2013 highlights the differences in war and post-war experiences. Hania X must live with the trauma of the loss of her parents and relatives, which she cannot forget even despite rejoining her sister and family.<\/span><\/p>\n

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