Rebecca Mascull – The Seamstress Of Warsaw

‘The Seamstress Of Warsaw’ by Rebecca Mascull is a historical fiction novel set at the latter end of the Second World War. I love historical reads and this is a time period I am always so interested in. This author is one of my go-to ones for historical fiction. I find her storytelling on point and her research is always so apparent.

This story is told from two perspectives by David in London and from Helena, a Seamstress from Warsaw. David is a young man who feels he needs to travel to Poland to find the truth about his past and hopefully discover who he is. Helena is in Poland and a Jew who is surviving despite the horrific conditions in which she lives.

We follow David as he sets out on his journey to get to Poland and everything he encounters on his way. Helena’s story shows her life in the ghettos and just how much fight she has in her to attempt to get herself and her daughter out of them.
We see the barbaric ways in which the Nazi’s treated them and the humiliation the Jewish people dealt with on a daily basis.

Rebecca Mascull descriptions of the ghettos leave nothing to the imagination. Her research is again forefront. My vision of them was crystal clear as was the foul stench that came with the ghettos. The fear was almost palpable for me too. This is an act of mass genocide I feel should be kept alive. Authors such as Rebecca Mascull and the many others who painstakingly have to research these things to write about them are doing stellar work in keeping these atrocities from falling into the abyss of history.

A story that I couldn’t put down, I wanted to know if David would find his true past and if Helena would survive the horrors of the ghetto and how they were linked if at all.

A book that I highly recommend for anyone at all. If only to keep the acts of the Nazi’s in everyone’s minds, forever.

Thank you to ZooLoo’s BookTours and Spellbound Books for my copy of this outstanding book.