How does briar rose by Jane Yolen end?

Becca Berlin, a 23 year-old journalist in a small New England town, makes a promise to her grandmother, Gemma, that she will track down and discover her inheritance. For as long as anyone can remember, Gemma has told and re-told a sad, dark variation of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale in which only the Princess Briar Rose is awakened by the prince's kiss; her family and people sleep on forever. The prince and princess marry and the princess gives birth to a beautiful daughter. But the prince soon disappears. There is no "happily ever after" in Gemma's tale. Just before Gemma dies, Gemma reveals to Becca that the Briar Rose of the fairy tale is actually Gemma.

Becca knows virtually nothing of her grandmother's past, other than that her grandmother came to the United States sometime near World War II. After the funeral, Becca is astounded to learn that even her parents do not know what Gemma's real name was or where she came from. Becca learns that her grandmother kept a large wooden box with her at the nursing home. In this box, Becca finds newspaper clippings, old photographs, wartime refugee papers and a man's monogrammed ring. The mementos lead her, first, to a war refugee camp in upstate New York and then to Chelmno in Poland. Chelmno is the site of the first Nazi death camp, where more than 300,000 Jews, gypsies and Poles were killed between 1941 and 1945.

At Chelmno, a priest introduces Becca to Josef Potocki, an elderly gentleman who is willing to share his memories of the Holocaust. Josef remembers Becca's grandmother and proceeds to tell Becca not only her grandmother's story but his own sad story as well.

The reader first hears the grandmother's story in its veiled fairy tale form and then hears the story behind the fairy tale -- or rather, the final portion of it starting with the prince's kiss. At the book's end, much of the grandmother's story remains a mystery. It dawns upon the reader that the grandmother's memories are too horrific to bear and that her subconscious has recast the memories into a vague but bearable fairy tale. The fairy tale associations make the novel all the more poignant and effective.

Jane Yolen takes care to point out in her afterward that there was no happy ending at Chelmno. She provides enough factual information in her novel and its afterward to inspire readers to look into the events at Chelmno. The novel inspires courage, compassion and tolerance. Ms. Yolen takes the message of tolerance even further with the character of Josef, a non-Jew who is persecuted because of his sexual orientation. Josef narrates the story with remarkable humility, presenting himself as an accidental hero. There are many nice touches in this fine novel. When you read this book, you will want to share it with others.

Briar Rose Jane Yolen

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