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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:East of the Storm: Outrunning the Holocaust in Russiaby Hanna Davidson Pankowsky
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:On September 27, 1939, less than four weeks after the Nazi invasion, Poland ceased to exist as a nation. Only three weeks had passed since ten-year-old Hanna Davidson had said goodbye to her father, Simon, and older brother, Kazik, who had been drafted and sent to defend Warsaw. Hanna and her mother, Sophia, an artist and intellectual, found themselves subjected to Hitler's efforts to dehumanize Poland's Jewish population.<P>But when they got word that Simon and Kazik were alive in Bialystok in the Soviet-occupied zone of Poland, Hanna and her mother made a fearful decision — they would risk a harrowing escape from Nazi Poland into safer Soviet territory.<P>More than a memoir of survival, the Davidsons' triumph is clearly one of a family whose spirit could not be impoverished — or humanity diminished — by persecution, war, famine, or political oppression. Book News Annotation:An account of one family's escape from Poland to Russia in 1939,
their years in Russia during WWII, and their eventual escape to the
West. The author, a daughter in the family, recounts several
escapes, posing under false identities in Stalin's Russia, and the
stories of many of her relatives who did not escape the Holocaust.
Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews@booknews.com) What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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