"Yehuda Nir was nine years old when he witnessed his father rounded up by the Nazis, never to be seen again - the first of countless relatives, friends and neighbors murdered during the Holocaust. Forced to flee to Warsaw and live in disguise as Catholics for the next five years…
The story of six years in the life of a Polish Jewish boy, who along with his mother and sister, survived World War II through cunning and guile.
Describes six years in the life of a daring and resourceful Polish Jewish boy and his family, who survived the Holocaust by using false papers and posing as Catholics.
by Ross, Henryk, Parr, Martin, Prus, Timothy, Weber, Thomas, Pelt, Robert Jan van
In the spring of 1940, the German forces occupying Poland drove the Jews of Lodz into the Holocaust's second-largest and most hermetically-sealed ghetto. It functioned both as a sweatshop serving the German war effort, and a prison for Jews en route to the death camps of Chelmno…
In this touching autobiography a Polish Jew describes his family's struggle to survive during the period from the Nazi invasion of Poland to their immigration to Chicago in the late 1940's.
