Into the Forest
A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
ISBN10: 1250874904
ISBN13: 9781250874900
Trade Paperback
368 Pages
$19.99
CA$26.99
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.
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Praise for Into the Forest
"An uplifting tale, suffused with a karmic righteousness that is, at times, exhilarating."—The Wall Street Journal
"Reads like a page turning thriller novel."—NPR
"Page-turning . . . an even more improbable fairy tale about rescue, reunion and romantic love."—The Forward
"Gripping."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“[An] extraordinary story."—Booklist
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CHAPTER 1
A Wedding in Vilna
In the end, it was a beautiful wedding.
Even if, according to the bride and groom’s parents, the occasion was long overdue and perhaps, for their sophisticated hosts, the...