The Girl in the Oil Painting
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A heart-wrenching, emotional WW2 historical fiction novel, based on a true story.
Rhodes, 1943. Sixteen-year-old Miriam has grown up surrounded by the vibrant colors of her family's life on this sun-drenched island — the turquoise sea, the ancient stone alleyways, her father's paintings that line the walls of their home.
When the Nazis arrive and begin deporting the island's centuries-old Jewish community, Miriam's world shatters overnight. Separated from everyone she loves, she is thrust into a nightmare of cattle cars, camps, and impossible choices. All she carries with her is a single memory: a portrait her father painted of her as a child — a girl in an oil painting, frozen in a world that no longer exists.
Decades later, a mysterious painting surfaces in a Tel Aviv gallery, and with it, questions that have been buried for over fifty years.
Inspired by the true story of the Jews of Rhodes, The Girl in the Oil Painting is a sweeping tale of loss, resilience, and the extraordinary power of art to preserve what history tried to erase.
Book 1 in the Art of Resistance series. Each novel can be read as a standalone.
