Kindle Customer: This book is about survival and hope. The Jews of Poland suffered greatly during WW2 but showed great ingenuity and perseverance. This amazing story exemplifies this.
United States on Sep 20, 2023
C Murphy: So so hard to comprehend. Human people treating other humans like that. Wanting to literally rid the world of them. We still suck.
United States on Sep 05, 2023
Denise Marie: Specifically woman's intuition and how important and significant it is; if others had listened perhaps this story would have had a different ending. While repetitive in spots and drawn out at the start it will move your heart.
United States on Jul 17, 2023
Ann2shoes: I wonder how anybody survived hiding in the forest in the cold, and having to move camp regularly to avoid detection. This is a good (true) story and well worth a read.
United Kingdom on May 04, 2021
Kindle CustomerScheli: It ceases to amaze astound me how people continually from Adam's time forward point the finger rage plead beg Yah for the circumstances that they knowingly willingly risks placing themselves in
Ex: in this bought on self tragedy for not one two or three years but at least for ten years through various people activities this couple and family Chose dispute being forewarned by Jews and Gentle, acquaintances and strangers fleeing ahead of them leaving the terror that they being unlike most well able to leave escape yet they up until the demon was at their front door simply refused to bulge move for one reason only their Comfort Zone. First it was not going to happen then when it began happening a a friend who was Polish in high places thus knowing what was happening and would continue urge begged pleaded with them to flee run for your family's lives well beingness.
Once it was in their faces still tgey said it would not effect them as they were too valuable to be mistreated, once it was at their door they said she could not travel with a baby nor pregnant too u comfortable.
Eventually fleeing with only valuables in the winter with a child and pregnant and caught up in all...
United States on Aug 11, 2020
memerelap: I enjoyed this life story through all of its turmoil, joy, sadness, disbelief and determination. Thanks to the author for letting the world experience some of the dark days, months and years of a sad time in humanity. Thank you.
Canada on Jan 27, 2020
awgb@mymts.net: One should never loose faith,as the people that had to live to tell there stories ,we that are fortunate not to experience the hell of war can understand what these people had to do to stay alive.
Welcome to life.
Canada on Nov 09, 2019
Michael Bully: Found this novel very moving. The Jewish ghettos in the cities tend to get highlighted more. However this novel opens with the story of a Jewish family in a village in the east of Poland in the years running up to World War 2. Their life seemed idyllic . An insight is given into a community where Jewish religious ritual and folklore flourished, even though some anti- Jewish feeling is evident , largely elsewhere, in the country.
And of course the proverbial stormclouds gather, and they just hope and pray for the best. Obviously with hindsight ,the naivety and refusal to see the danger that so many displayed becomes painful to read. Without spoiling the plot, the family end up hiding in the forest in a bid to avoid being permanently confined in a ghetto then being deported. Reminds me of the film 'Defiance' . Faced with the threat of capture by the Germans, Polish informants, partisans who were not sympathetic to the Jews, the family survive. Beautifully written, parts of the tale remind me of late 20th century magical realism with historical notes interjected. I am trying to place where the novel it set.....seems to be in the further east of the section of Poland that the...
United Kingdom on Aug 05, 2019
Chris R.: Well worth spending the time to read this book. I obviously knew of the horrors of the Warsaw ghetto but hadn't realised that even people living in quiet villages in the Polish countryside were just as badly treated. It's a study of both humanity and inhumanity that is quite poignant now with yet again a rise in anti semitism.
United Kingdom on May 10, 2019
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ISBN-10 | 1796269409 | 1510766804 | 1544512287 |
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Lynn Ulrich: No words can ever be to explain the suffering of the European Jews in the late 1030s-1947!!!! Moving
War starving
Sacrifice and yet SURVIVAL
GOOD STORY GREAT READ
United States on Sep 28, 2023