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Rebecca Frankel's Into the Forest is a gripping story of love, escape, and survival, from wartime Poland to a courtship in the Catskills.
A 2021 National Jewish Book Award Finalist
One of Smithsonian Magazine's Best History Books of 2021
"An uplifting tale, suffused with a karmic righteousness that is, at times, exhilarating."--Wall Street Journal
"A gripping narrative that reads like a page turning thriller novel."--NPR
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.
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the deeply moving story of how a Polish family became one of the very few to survive the Holocaust by hiding for years in the woods: "Into the Forest" author @becksfrankel talks w/ @AliRogin https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/many-jews-fleeing-nazi-rule-spent-years-hiding-in-forests-a-new-book-tells-their-stories
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Rebecca Frankel (@becksfrankel) takes @smithsonian through the Alps, retracing the steps of Jewish refugees from World War II. Read this expanded chapter from her book INTO THE FOREST here: https://t.co/4WZTjpsogM
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On a special episode titled "Sometimes the unthinkable happens: A conversation with Rebecca Frankel". @djrothkopf talks with @becksfrankel about her new book "Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love". Hear their conversation here: https://thedsrnetwork.com/sometimes-the-unthinkable-happens-a-conversation-with-rebecca-frankel/ https://t.co/cWwtFfx1ug