Victoria Hislop - The Thread (Plot Summary) Business Office 2

This is the minute part of the plot summary of Victoria Hislop's novel The Thread. For a brief introduction in addition to the starting fourth dimension 10 chapters of the book, delight read Victoria Hislop - The Thread (Plot Summary) Part 1

The Thread

chapter 11:

Dimitris, girls, Elias, Isaac oftentimes leave of absence on walks/to play: this is kept clandestine from Komninos
kids view graveyard
meals amongst the Morenos described
American lady at offices of Refugee Settlement Commission all the same remembers Eugenia + family
Katerina writes missive of the alphabet to her woman parent + gives it to office
Zenia + Artemis’s story: inward Athens, are housed inward opera house; ladies inward Smyrna (prevented Zenia from getting off the boat to rest amongst Katerina for fearfulness boat would capsize + they’d lose relics / icons for novel church) at nowadays tell her to write missive of the alphabet to notice Katerina
French lady at Refugee Settlement Commission indifferently puts missive of the alphabet on pile

chapter 12:

Katerina learns stitching from Mrs. Moreno, who is happy to receive got a immature lady to demo her merchandise to
Olga lends Eugenia coin to purchase loom to brand carpets
Olga tells merchants to accept their fourth dimension amongst the orders for novel Komninos mansion
Eventually, mansion is ready, Olga must leave of absence Irini Street: lamentable goodbyes
postmaster at sorting part inward Athens makes connecter betwixt Zenia’s in addition to Katerina’s mail
Zenia: remarried to vecino amongst four kids (Angelos Pantazoglou); Artemis is pushed some yesteryear stepfather in addition to siblings, Pantazoglou beats Zenia
Zenia asks Eugenia to hold Katerina for some fourth dimension

chapter 13:

Maria + Sofia desire to operate every bit tobacco girls (would operate outside, acquire paid every week)
Katerina in addition to Eugenia disagree amongst this: Eugenia wants her daughters to acquire a science (which would accept time)
Dimitris misses his friends: Komninos doesn’t allow them play together
Olga’s agoraphobia grows: tailors come upwards to her solid to brand dresses for dinners at the mansion/Olga’s appearances amongst clients
Katerina goes to acquire needlework at Moreno’s solid every black spell Eugenia fought amongst her daughters most their futurity every bit tobacco girls
Mrs. Moreno embroiders quilt: Roza’s operate for pleasance = she adds sth novel every therefore often; is a operate inward progress that would never live on finished; is a “profoundly symbolic work”; for Katerina this links sewing amongst love
Katerina’s acquaint for Eugenia’s nurture day: handkerchief she embroidered amongst bloom + butterfly
Eugenia gets missive of the alphabet from government: hubby presumed dead; is touched yesteryear Katerina’s beautiful gift

chapter 14:

Sofia + Maria start operate at tobacco manufacturing flora (away from home, border of the city)
Sofia gets a fiddling to a greater extent than coin than others because she’s flirtatious amongst supervisor
Katerina = thirteen yrs old: extremely skilled inward embroidery; goes out to sell wares inward richer neighborhoods; wares are sold for less than their worth, but e'er sold out, therefore coin brought inward in addition to identify unit of measurement never hungry
Moreno workshop known for its attending to particular + perfection: Katerina goes to operate there
Komninos at Moreno’s shop: Dimitri laid to accept exams to travel into law schoolhouse (although Dimitris wants to travel a doctor); Olga doesn’t leave of absence the solid
Elias goes to play tavli (backgammon) amongst Dimitri from fourth dimension to fourth dimension but leaves every bit presently every bit Komninos comes in: Komninos wants boy to acquire five languages before leaving school
why Morenos didn’t alive inward bigger solid since they receive got such a large workshop + skilful reputation: position profits dorsum into business, hire best workers (especially relatives + Jews but also Greeks, + had Muslims they all the same miss)

chapter 15:

Katerina learns nether guidance of Saul’s aunt, Esther Moreno (worked over twoscore yrs there)
Katerina position to operate inward finishing room nether Mrs. Raphael (on beading): does fantabulous work
Katerina remembers her woman parent working on ecclesiastical robe amongst nostalgia
historical facts: Thessaloniki = the affluent alive side yesteryear side inward shacks amongst poorer immigrants since the great burn downwardly wiped out homes; Irini Street families are inward between; unemployment rising; project militancy specially from tobacco workers; Nationalists hostile towards Jews (who hadn’t welcomed Greek troops during 1912 liberation of Thessaloniki + some who all the same didn’t beak Greek)
Moreno workshop: Moreno finds “Jew” painted on door
Campbell district: 2 Jewish houses torched: after many Jews emigrated (Palestine)
Moreno’s reaction to this: keeps morale of workers high (buys gramophone); takes out large ads inward newspapers to improve reputation (right-wing newspapers too)
dress for Olga is finished + Katerina takes it to Komninos solid (Olga has grown thin)
Katerina sees Dimitris every bit she nears the solid (Dimitris= sixteen yrs old); they travel inward together
Olga eager to listen intelligence from Irini Street: Katerina brings life dorsum into the solid amongst her intelligence + tales; Dimitris is mesmerized
Komninos returns; rebukes Olga for non having taken clothes out of box to hang
20,000 stremmata bought five yrs before yesteryear Komninos for production of silk; guests / clients regard Olga wearing clothes made from his fine materials in addition to desire to purchase from him
Dimitris preparing to accept exams to acquire into medical school

chapter 16:

Komninos furious amongst Dimitri for joining medical faculty at university: his occupation concern is growing despite economical slump; needs lawyer non doctor
Dimitris: aware of inequality + precariousness of his seat every bit the boy of a wealthy man
Dimitris sees Katerina + Elias (Mr. Moreno at nowadays has delivery van for clothes): Elias + Dimitris suit to travel on tavli tournament
Dimitris’s academy friends: Vassilis Filipidis, Nikolaos Zakhariades, Lefteris, Manolis, Alexandros
they travel to tekhes to regard Stelios Keromitis (rebetis) sing most suffering + flying from Asia Minor until early on morning
nights out travel on + Elias joins grouping of friends (continues to play tavli amongst Dimitris)
Elias updates Dimitris: Maria moved to Trikala (married amongst baby); Sofia engaged for 2 yrs; Moreno grandmother dead; Katerina practically fellow member of Moreno family; Eugenia plant long hours at carpeting factory
Dionis Street: they regard Komninos travel into brothel: Dimitris tells virile individual parent indirectly the same black after returning abode belatedly + drunk
family lunch: Komninos goads boy to anger over political province of affairs (Metaxas appointed Prime Minister yesteryear King; is nifty downwardly on worker protests; merchandise unionists + Communists are exiled); Dimitris keeps his cool for Olga’s sake
Dimitris meets Elias, Vassilis, Katerina at kafenion (café): walks her home; falling for her happiness; says she, similar Mozart, is said to live on a prodigy
tobacco workers strike: Vassilis tells them all to leave of absence to back upwards over 20,000 strikers inward the city
martial law imposed yesteryear Metaxas: side yesteryear side 24-hour interval during strike, police force burn downwardly on unarmed crowd; Dimitris seeks shelter inward Moreno house
martial law declared, Greece = dictatorship: over dinner, Komninos toasts dictatorship (Olga non present) taunting Dimitris, who leaves

chapter 17:

Vassilis + Communists are imprisoned; farther suppression yesteryear Metaxas
letter to Vassilis’s father: Vassilis died of tuberculosis (Dimitris goes to alternative upwards personal holding inward prison; signing his nurture on the shape = marks him every bit Communist)
twins desire Eugenia to movement to Trikala (Sofia lives nearby), but for Katerina + Eugenia Thessaloniki = home
Zenia’s letters to Katerina travel fewer: squalid weather at home, sharing it amongst 2 stepdaughters + their husbands + their widowed mothers; exclusively Zenia works
Greek regular army pushes Italians dorsum (Epirus): Komninos toasts his boy + Metaxas’s army

chapter 18:

Germans arrive: nutrient shortages, Jews arrested (council members + community leaders)
growing anti-Semitism: signs “Jews non welcome here” appear
anti-Jewish measures: manus over radios (Moreno gramophone is hidden)
Moreno business: Germans are clients; employees at workshop were amend off than other Greeks because they had a chore + food
2 men arrive, are representatives of Jewish Affairs Commission: get together whatever Jewish documents + manuscripts; Morenos enshroud parochet (curtain hanging inward front end of the Ark), tallit (silk parchment, 500 yrs old), yad (pointer)
German at Moreno workshop breaks rebetiko records employees would heed to on gramophone: gives them Wagner’s Lieder instead

chapter 19:

Dimitris + Elias travel andartes: travel members of EAM (National Liberation Front) whose aim was relief operate yesteryear stealing nutrient in addition to medication to give to the Greeks ; King George + regime receive got withdrawn to the Middle East
they bring together ELAS (National Popular Liberation Army) fighting guerrilla warfare against Germans
they obtain a few days leave of absence to view amongst family
Dimitris goes home: sees Pavlina + Olga; virile individual parent returns (“You’re a disgrace to this family.”) in addition to bans boy from entering the solid therefore long every bit he’s a Communist fighting for ELAS
Dimitris goes to Moreno house: they welcome him, give him a bed for the black + fresh clothes
Elias goes to Moreno workshop to convince Isaac to bring together them (Dimitris is jealous Elias volition regard Katerina)
Dimitris goes for a walk, sits inward a café, is recognized live on a gendarme every bit Komninos’ second son: is disgusted that his virile individual parent is on skilful price amongst gendarmes
all Jewish men 18-45 yrs onetime transported to do difficult project inward Larissa; before leaving they are made to do “keep agree exercises” inward the Sun without water, shade, rest: Jacob from the Moreno workshop vomits, collapses, is left on the the world unconscious for an hour
Jews are given the take away chances to purchase dorsum laborers (3 1000000 drachmas): Jewish cemetery valued at that amount yesteryear Germans in addition to therefore is given to them; Germans accept marble headstones, sell them + role them inward construction
Isaac returns (Jacob has died along amongst iii other Moreno employees)

chapter 20:

less operate at Moreno workshop: famine inward city; Komninos position upwards toll of fabrics therefore exclusively the rich had clothes made; poorer people brought clothes to live on mended or altered for size
Olga becomes thinner; dinners at Komninos mansion travel on amongst Germans every bit guests
Jan 1943: Eichmann’s deputy arrives to implement the Final Solution for 50,000 Jews; starting fourth dimension are made to article of apparel a xanthous star at all times, in addition to therefore are moved into a ghetto
Morenos give precious hidden heirlooms to Katerina in addition to Eugenia to hold in addition to hide
Moreno workshop is locked
Isaac arrives at Eugenia’s, starving: says he escaped from the ghetto. Rabbi Koretz told them they’d live on moved to Krakow, Poland; they were told to telephone substitution their drachmas for zlotys; he had escaped but came dorsum to leave of absence amongst his family/can’t abandon them; he has simply come upwards to acquire some clothes + blankets
Eugenia + Katerina rest upwards all black to brand warm clothes for Morenos
they both travel to railway station the side yesteryear side 24-hour interval to tell goodbye to Morenos but aren’t allowed to travel near