The Jewish War and the Victory

ISBN-13: 9780810117853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 153 str.

Henryk Grynberg; Celina Wieniewska; Richard Lourie

Opis

This epic tells the story of a Polish Jewish family struggling against nearly insurmountable odds. In "The Jewish War, " the family of a young Jewish boy hides throughout the countryside until the father is murdered. To escape, the mother and boy use forged papers and adopt a false life as the Catholic family of an officer captured by the Germans. "The Victory "picks up the story as the Red Army advances and the boy fights to reclaim his Jewishness amidst the horrors of the past and the choices of an agonizing present.