Kacie's Book Thingy! :)

Luncia (Ruth) Gruener had a very normal but happy life living in a Polish town called Lvov. She has the perfect life, but things go downhill from there when she finds out she has to hide from the Nazis. First, all the Germans want their jewelry, then all their stuff made of metal, then all their furniture. Luncia and her parents can't even do anything about it. They just have to sit there and watch them take whatever they want. But after the Germans take al of that stuff, they decide they wanna start taking all the Jews away as well. Luncia and her parents along with Luncia's grandmother, try to stay in hiding as best as they can without the Germans finding them. They all try to stay as quiet as possible and hope that things get better. But they don't. Luncia has to stay VERY quiet and hide in this trunk for so long that she has to learn how to walk again. Luncia's parents want her to stay safe, so they take her to the Szczgiel family to stay in hiding for awhile. While the Szczgiel mom went to the store, she had run into Mrs. Oyak who worked with Tatu (Lunica's father) in his candy shop. And apparently, Tata had arranged for Mr. Oyak to hid Luncia's mother at their house. Then came more good news. The Oyak's were hiding Tatu too! Then, the Szczgiel family decided to take Luncia to go hide with the Oyak family. When Luncia arrived at the Oyak house and saw her parents, she was overwhelmed with love and joy! They reached out and hugged her all over. They were so happy to finally be reunited again. And then one morning, they woke up to gunshots. They looked out the window and noticed that it was the Russian army. They were being liberated!!! It was safe to go outside after that, so they went outside and looked in their old apartment where they used to hide, to see if anybody survived. Unfortuneately, everybody else had died. But soon, little bits of pieces of their life started slowly coming back together. Luncia started going to public school again and even started taking piano lessons. Then, they decided to go to New York City in America where the rest of their family was. Even though Poland was their true home, they were excited to be going to America. It was a long and complicated journey to America, but finally, they had their first look of America on January 7, 1949 at about 11 in the morning. After they had moved in and everything, Luncia went right back to school in 1952, she graduated Thomas Jefferson High School. Then after that, she continued her education at Brooklyn College and at the New York School of Interior Design. While doing this, Luncia and a boy she met a long time ago named Jack, exchanged letters all the time. Her and Jack started a successful interior-design firm together, and had 2 kids. And then after that, they thought life couldn't get any better. <3