Gone to Pitchipoi: A Boy's Desperate Fight for Survival in Wartime - Couverture souple

Katz, Rubin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1618112740 ISBN 13 : 9781618112743

Editeur : Academic Studies Press, 2013

Synopsis

Book by Katz Rubin

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Gone to Pitchipoi is the true and remarkable story of one Jewish boy's constant struggle for survival during the Holocaust in wartime Poland. Rubin Katz had just turned eight years old when the Second World War began and the outbreak of hostilities shattered his secure and idyllic childhood. When the Nazis embarked on the Final Solution, Katz, too young to be deemed fit for slave labor, was classed as unproductive and consequently marked for certain death. Over the next few years he was forced to evade the Nazis snares, moving in and out of the shadows in his daily quest for food and shelter. Katz lived on the run, forced to flee and hide while taking on different roles to fit desperate situations. Incessantly hounded, Katz ultimately made his way to Warsaw to join his elder sister Fela. Together they experienced one narrow escape after another from the perils of the Gestapo, as well as the Warsaw Uprising. This enthralling account of struggle and survival is a true testament to the human will to live and courage to endure.

Revue de presse :

"[Katz's] story is compelling, drawing you in with each twist of fate and ingenuity as he defies detection and death time and time again. Beautifully and insightfully told, his story takes us behind the scenes. We see the normality of life for those who were not under threat and simultaneously the hostility and treachery that threatened those who were marked for death."--Dr. Stephen D. Smith, OBE Executive Director, USC Shoah Foundation Institute

"Although completed more than sixty years after the events it describes, the memoir is remarkable for the ability of its author to recall so many events in detail and for the way he is able to be fair to all those caught up in the tragic dilemmas of those years. It is a major contribution to our understanding of the fate of Jews in smaller Polish towns during the Second World War and the conditions which made it possible for some of them, like Rubin...to survive..." --Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University, Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Academic Studies Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1618112740
• ISBN 13: 9781618112743
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 348