My March to Liberation: A Jewish Boy's Story of Partizan Warfare is the compelling saga of a young Jewish boy coming of age during World War II. Paul Strassmann was fifteen when his family's life in Trenčin, Slovakia, was turned upside down by the war. His memoir tells one man's story of what it was like to be a teenager during World War II--what he learned, what he lost, and what he had to do to survive.

During the summer and fall of 1944, life became perilous. Strassman's family was deported, and he became a fugitive, but he quickly determined that he was unsuited for a...