Non-fiction -- 4 stars
The true story of the Rabinowitz family in Nazi controlled Poland. A story of survival through German and Russian occupations, ghettos, pogroms, and finally, in desperation, the forest. How one family survived. ----- Ms. Frankel's storytelling style is not unlike that of true crime queen Ann Rule--dry, clinical, exacting in detail. That is not to say this book is without emotion. It is impossible to read their years' long fight for life without being moved by their devotion to each other and their determination to survive as a loving family unit. The ingenuity demonstrated by the Rabinowitzes and the other Jewish families who worked together to evade the Nazi's final solution is a story of bravery and tenacity to be admired and celebrated. Based on interviews with members of the Rabinowitz family who lived this history.
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