Into the forest : a Holocaust story of survival, triumph, and love / Rebecca Frankel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frankel, Rebecca, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rabinowitz family.

Rabinowitz, Miriam Dworetsky, 1908-1981.

Rabinowitz, Miriam Dworetsky.

Rabinowitz, Morris, 1906-1982.

Rabinowitz, Morris.

Lazowski, Philip.

Jews--Belarus--Dzi͡atlava (Hrodzenskai͡a voblastsʹ)--Biography.

Jews.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Poland.

World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Bialowieza Forest (Poland and Belarus).

World War, 1939-1945.

Holocaust survivors--Connecticut--Hartford--Biography.

Holocaust survivors.

Connecticut--Hartford.

Belarus--Dzi︠a︡tlava (Hrodzenskai︠a︡ voblastsʹ).

Europe--Bialowieza Forest.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 335 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Rebecca Frankel's Into the Forest is a gripping story of love, escape, and survival, from wartime Poland to a wedding in Connecticut. In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods-through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi raids-until they were liberated by the Red Army in 1944. After the war they trekked across the Alps into Italy where they settled as refugees before eventually immigrating to the United States. During the first ghetto massacre, Miriam Rabinowitz rescued a young boy named Philip by pretending he was her son. Nearly a decade later, a chance encounter at a wedding in Brooklyn would lead Philip to find the woman who saved him. And to discover her daughter Ruth was the love of his life. From a little-known chapter of Holocaust history, one family's inspiring true story of love, escape, and survival"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I BEFORE

1. A Wedding in Vilna

2. The Town Named After a Bird

pt. II THE WAR

3. The Russians Invade

4. The Germans Invade

5. Back to Zhetel

6. The Ghetto

7. The Resistance

8. The First Selection and the Boy from Bilitza

9. The Escape

pt. III THE FOREST

10. The First Winter

11. The Second Summer and the Boy with the Frozen Feet

12. Liberation

pt. IV AFTER

13. The Long Road Home

14. Across the Alps and to the Sea

15. In America

16. A Wedding in Connecticut.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781250267641

1250267641

OCLC:

1246675150