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Gone To Pitchipoi : a Boy's Desperate Fight For Survival In Wartime / Rubin Katz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Katz, Rubin, 1931- Author.
- Series:
- Jews of Poland Series
- Jews of Poland
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--Poland--Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski--Biography.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Poland.
- Poland--Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (348 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2017]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- This vivid and moving memoir describes the survival of a Jewish child in the hell of Nazi occupied Poland.Rubin Katz was born in Ostrowiec ÅwiÄtokrzyskie, Poland, in 1931.This town, located in the picturesque countryside of central Poland 42 miles south of Radom, had in 1931 a population of nearly 30,000, of whom more than a third were Jews.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Foreword by Stephen Smith
- Introduction by Antony Polonsky
- Prologue: A Carefree Childhood
- Chapter 1: War! War! Is Their Cry
- Chapter 2: The Nightmare Begins
- Chapter 3: The Large Ghetto
- Chapter 4: In the Hen-House
- Chapter 5: Gone to Pitchipoï
- Chapter 6: Like a Ghetto Rat
- Chapter 7: The Brickyard
- Chapter 8: A Shallow Grave
- Chapter 9: Deadly Encounter
- Chapter 10: My Guardian Angel
- Chapter 11: An "Angel" in Nazi Uniform
- Chapter 12: Jewish Pilgrim at the Black Madonna
- Chapter 13: The Warsaw Inferno
- Chapter 14: Shelter at a Police Colony
- Chapter 15: "Robinson Crusoe"
- Chapter 16: Stefek: Leader of the Gang
- Chapter 17: A Shaft of Light
- Chapter 18: Lublin Orphanage
- Chapter 19: Shattered Homecoming
- Chapter 20: Passage to Tower Bridge
- Chapter 21: Adieu Poland: Welcome to Woodberry Down
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781618116840
- 1618116843
- 9781618112743
- 1618112740
- 9781618112354
- 161811235X
- OCLC:
- 1135585773
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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