Into the Forest
A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
Rebecca Frankel
St. Martin's Press
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St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Publishing Group
On Sale: 09/07/2021
ISBN: 9781250267658
304 PagesFrom a little-known chapter of Holocaust history, Rebecca Frankel's Into the Forest is one family’s inspiring true story of love, escape, and survival.
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.
Praise for Into the Forest
"Full of telling details...A gripping story of one family’s courage and resourcefulness under life-threatening conditions. —Kirkus (starred)
"Inspirational... Readers will be on the edge of their seats." —Publisher's Weekly
"Gave me goosebumps, actual goosebumps... Thrilling and heartwarming, without masking horror and tragedy.” —David Plotz, former CEO Atlas Obscura, author of Good Book
"Set in one of the world's last remaining primeval forests, this story of horror and heroism has the trappings of a grim fairy tale: Once upon a terrible time, after so much loss and devastation, one unlikely couple found their happily ever after." —Ilana Kurshan, author of If All the Seas Were Ink, winner of the Sami Rohr Prize
“A most impressive book, superbly researched and written in a gripping narrative that’s hard to put down... A tragic, yet uplifting, tale of human fortitude and love that needs to be told and widely read.”—Allan Levine, author of Fugitives of the Forest
“What makes Into the Forest truly memorable is Frankel’s uncanny empathy for her characters... She never allows us to look away, nor do we want to, no matter how terrible the events of this powerful narrative.” —Glenn Frankel, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author
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