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Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
Into the Forest A Holocaust Story of Survival Triumph and Love Author:Rebecca Frankel 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 woodsâthrough brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi raidsâuntil they were liberated by the Red Army in 1944. After the wa... more »r 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.« less