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Underneath a Changing Sky: A WW2 Historical Novel, Based on a True Story
Would you risk everything to be home again?
Poland, 1935. When Syma – a young, outspoken physician decides to leave home and embark on an adventure in a strange land, she cannot imagine the powerful emotional whirlpool she’ll find herself in.
When the conflict between the lure of bourgeois Europe and a new life with a promising love affair leaves her heartbroken, Syma makes the decision to leave everything behind, and sails back home, to Poland.
A moment’s choice which seals her fate.
November 1942. In the midst of a harsh Polish winter, Syma stands waiting at the railway station, on the same platform she was so familiar with in her previous life, a bygone reality.
Underneath a Changing Sky tells the heart wrenching story of an independent woman, who chose to live her own truth at a time when bigotry and hate were rising all around her. Even at the risk of her own life.
Poland, 1935. When Syma – a young, outspoken physician decides to leave home and embark on an adventure in a strange land, she cannot imagine the powerful emotional whirlpool she’ll find herself in.
When the conflict between the lure of bourgeois Europe and a new life with a promising love affair leaves her heartbroken, Syma makes the decision to leave everything behind, and sails back home, to Poland.
A moment’s choice which seals her fate.
November 1942. In the midst of a harsh Polish winter, Syma stands waiting at the railway station, on the same platform she was so familiar with in her previous life, a bygone reality.
Underneath a Changing Sky tells the heart wrenching story of an independent woman, who chose to live her own truth at a time when bigotry and hate were rising all around her. Even at the risk of her own life.
- GenresHistorical Fiction
178 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 28, 2023
About the author
Yaron Reshef
5 books75 followersYaron Reshef is an industrial designer, product developer, educator, and genealogist researcher.
Together with his wife, Raya, he has traveled to almost every continent on the planet, but most of all, he is a passionate writer, photographer, and storyteller.
Yaron was born in Haifa, Israel in 1951.
Yaron’s publications:
“Out of the Shoebox”: an autobiographic mystery (historical nonfiction), 2014.
“Another Planet”: an amazing journey of photography (using a 360-degree camera), 2020.
“When She Came Back”: a WW2 historical novel based on a true story, 2020.
"Underneath a Changing Sky": A WW2 Historical Novel, Based on a True Story (World War II Brave Women Fiction). 2022.
Together with his wife, Raya, he has traveled to almost every continent on the planet, but most of all, he is a passionate writer, photographer, and storyteller.
Yaron was born in Haifa, Israel in 1951.
Yaron’s publications:
“Out of the Shoebox”: an autobiographic mystery (historical nonfiction), 2014.
“Another Planet”: an amazing journey of photography (using a 360-degree camera), 2020.
“When She Came Back”: a WW2 historical novel based on a true story, 2020.
"Underneath a Changing Sky": A WW2 Historical Novel, Based on a True Story (World War II Brave Women Fiction). 2022.
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November 7, 2025
devastating
Way too real in documentation and reality, but so very necessary for now & the future. Racial or religious annihilation of people is the ultimate cruelty & still very difficult to comprehend. Yet these phenomena exist worldwide. Syma was ahead of her time in some ways but very naive in others. Outstanding read though.
Way too real in documentation and reality, but so very necessary for now & the future. Racial or religious annihilation of people is the ultimate cruelty & still very difficult to comprehend. Yet these phenomena exist worldwide. Syma was ahead of her time in some ways but very naive in others. Outstanding read though.
August 20, 2025
A poignant and sad story….
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