I’m deeply grateful for everyone who has purchased, read, and taken the time to review my book. A special thank you also to everyone who has spread the word to help promote this book, in the name of tolerance. And with all profits going to help get dogs out of kill shelters, lives are being saved.
I am a big fan of Paulette Mahurin’s books and “The Seven Year Dress” exceeded my expectations in every way. The story is told as a personal account through the eyes of Helen Stein, a holocaust survivor. She begins her tale when she was a young toddler growing up within her happy Jewish family. Her account unfolds with events as she is growing up and leads to when she is a young woman during Nazi Germany. The story is not an easy read by any means and yet the author’s voice is clear, strong, and precise as the horrific events are shared.
The story is fiction and yet the historical facts are so well-researched that it felt like I was reading a true account. It is a powerful and unforgettable novel. The writing is articulate and uncluttered. I admire the title very much and feel it is brilliant and painfully poetic.
Do not think you can read this book and remain unchanged.
It’s hard not to cry at this moment, just finishing the book, and think over what I read. Such a amazing story of courage in horrifying circumstances.
Paulette did it again!!!!!!!. What a great story although it was a tough story to read it flowed like butter on a piece of toast and I couldn’t put it down. As I was reading the book flashes of my family would go through my head. My 4 Grandparents where from Russia, Poland and England. They could have been there at the time of Hitler. But they had enough courage to leave their homelands and venture across the ocean to America. They came around the middle of the 20’s. My Mom and Dad born in the late 20’s would have been very young children. Thinking of all of them being there…….:(
Its so hard for me to understand one person hatred and to get all those other people to follow him is beyond my comprehension.
I’m not sure if i would have the courage or the strength to go through 7 years of hell. But reading about Helen her thoughts, her courage and her strength to get through hell was a wonder in it self. God Bless you Helen!!!!! And all the millions of others that had to go through this horrible time.
I feel l was in Auschwitz concentration camp after reading this book. It was so humanly told by the main character Helen. I couldn’t put the book down. Riveting told story.
This is a holocaust story so deals with issues that are horrendous. At the same time this is the story of a person who lives through this era. Helen begins her story when she rents out a room to a young trainee nurse, for now is the time to tell it, many years after. She survived but not unscathed, but this is the story of how.
The details and the character development make for an emotional read. What is really impressive is there are good people caught up in the madness who try to do what they can to help, despite what they are ordered to do. Not all in uniform are monsters and not all those oppressed are worthy of compassion. Be warned to keep the Kleenex handy.
This is a well written, brilliant and moving story of a girl that found the spirit to survive what the nazis did to her in the war and the prison/death camp of Auschwitz. I couldn’t put it down, just had to know the next bit and the next. Really top book, would recommend it to anyone. I don’t know if it is based on a genuine meeting with this woman, but it certainly reads like it was. Very real.
“The Seven Year Dress” by Paulette Mahurin is a story that needs to be told, over and over, lest we forget where history has taken us at the hands of a despot and continue to make the same mistakes. It wasn’t just during WWII that millions perished but all massive wars, civil revolutions, and designs to cleanse or overthrow a race of peoples. This is not a light story but is has been told by Mahurin with heart and that balances the devastation and cruelty done to the victims. Mahurin brilliantly shows us that to survive takes courage, strength, attitude, but more significantly the kindness of others, selfless acts of kindness is the antidote for evil actions. I was skeptical when I purchased this book. What more could be told about the plethora, portrayed in movies and stories for the last 150, that has been written on the subject of Hitler’s regime? There is no dearth of stories about the holocaust. But where this novel, this inspirational novel, differs is with the personal touch that doesn’t hold back, and doesn’t forget that wherever we go there we are in all our collective humanness: the good, the bad, the beautiful, the soulful, and it is in this difference this unforgettable novel shines. Highly recommend.
Some books explain history. Some books show history. And some books make you feel history.
This is one of the latter.
This story takes one of the most horrific and difficult to process periods in history and brings it down to the personal level, where the idea that we are all neither fully-good nor completely bad is explored. The book deals with challenging topics in an honest, yet sensitive way which leaves an impression long after the last page has been turned.
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About The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap
The year 1895 was filled with memorable historical events: the Dreyfus Affair divided France; Booker T. Washington gave his Atlanta address; Richard Olney, United States Secretary of State, expanded the effects of the Monroe Doctrine in settling a boundary dispute between the United Kingdom and Venezuela; and Oscar Wilde was tried and convicted for "gross indecency" under Britian's recently passed law that made sex between males a criminal offense. When the news of Wilde's conviction went out over telegraphs worldwide, it threw a small Nevada town into chaos. This is the story of what happened when the lives of its citizens were impacted by the news of Oscar Wildes' imprisonment. It is chronicle of hatred and prejudice with all its unintended and devastating consequences, and how love and friendship bring strength and healing.
Paulette Mahurin, the author, is a Nurse Practitioner who lives in Ojai, California with her husband Terry and their two dogs--- Max and Bella. She practices women's health in a rural clinic and writes in her spare time. All profits from her book are going to animal rescue, Santa Paula Animal Shelter, the first and only no-kill shelter in Ventura County, CA, where she lives. (see links below on Ventura County Star Article & Shelter)
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(photos: of Paulette, her family, and a reading at The Ojai Art Center, July 2012)
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Really terrific reviews and Brownie is a cutie. Looks like an older girl.
Yes, she is an old girl, 12 years-old, and thankfully has been rescued. ❤
I was going to ask how old she was – I love seeing one of the older pups get rescued!
Me too. It’s heartbreaking to see an older dog land in a shelter, confused and depressed. This one has a happy ending, thank goodness! ❤
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Great reviews for Paulette’s book.
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How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it!
So true my friend, so true. Thank you. ❤
I have just been informed that my copy of your book has just arrived from Amazon US. Looking forward to reading it.
Jean-Jacques
Thank you so much for letting me know, JJ. I’m really looking forward to what your reading it and any feedback. Hugs to you, to Marianne, and your fur babies. ❤
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Aaaaaaaaw What a face. And what a pawtastic review (s). Way to go. Have a pawsum day.
Luv ya’
Dezi and Raena.
Welcome to your first time here Raena and to fur your pawsome continued support my pal Dezi. It’s puuuuuurrrrrrfect to share this with you two and your bestest mommie. Luv ya right back ❤
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Thank you so much for the reblog. ❤
Great review
Thank you so much, my friend. I’m very happy with it. ❤
I’m really quite impressed with these reviews, P! Bravo! 🙂 ❤
Thank you my dear friend. I’m very happy with them. And as always a big thanks to you and your editing/formatting. ❤
Appaws appaws for the review and a pawkiss for the doggie, he looks so cute, and a double for you 🙂 ❤ ❤
Ahh, thanks so much for the appaws and with you on pawkisses for the sweet elderly doggie. Many pawkisses back at ya. 🙂 ❤ ❤
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Impressive review
Thank you, Lou. ❤
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Thank you so much for the reblog my friend. Very grateful for your support. 🙂