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A Jewish boy kills a Nazi by the Polish ghetto. He must escape the Third Reich at all costs. The captivating true story of one boy's flight across Europe to escape the Nazis. A tale of extraordinary courage incredible adventure and the relentless pursuit of life in the face of impossible challenges. In early 1940 Chaim Herszman was locked in to the Lodz Ghetto in Poland. Hungry fearless and determined he goes on scavenging missions outside the wire limits until he is forced to kill a Nazi guard. That moment changes the course of his life and sets him on an unbelievable adventure across enemy lines. Chaim avoids grenade and rifle fire on the Russian border shelters with a German family in the Rhineland falls in love in occupied France is captured on a mountain pass in Spain gets interrogated as a potential Nazi spy in Britain and eventually fights for everything he believes in as part of the British Army. He protects his life by posing as an Aryan boy with a crucifix around his neck and fights for his life through terrible and astonishing circumstances. Escape from the Ghetto is about a normal boy who faced extermination by the Nazis in the ghetto or a Nazi deathcamp and the extraordinary life he led in avoiding that fate. It's a bittersweet story about epic hope beauty amidst horror and the triumph of the human spirit.
John Carr
Paperback
Hachette
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