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Boy with a Violin - A Story of Survival (Hardcover)
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Boy with a Violin - A Story of Survival (Hardcover)
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On June 22, 1941, the German invasion of the Soviet Union began. In
a matter of days, the war reached the suburbs of Kaunas, Lithuania,
where a young Jewish violinist, Yochanan Fein, led a happy
childhood. On June 22, 1941, that childhood ended. In Boy with a
Violin, Fein recounts his early life under Nazi occupation-his
survival in the Kaunas Ghetto, the separation from his parents, his
narrow escapes from death at the hands of Nazi officers, the
harrowing stories of those he knew who did not survive, and the
abhorrent conditions he endured while in hiding. He tells the tale
of his rescuer, Jonas Paulavicius, the Lithuanian carpenter who
sought to save the Jewish spirit. Paulavicius rescued those he
believed could rebuild in the wake of the Holocaust, hiding
engineers and doctors in his underground Noah's Ark. Among the
sixteen he saved stood one fourteen-year-old violinist. Following
liberation, Fein describes the aftermath of the war as survivors
returned to what was left of their homes and attempted to piece
together the fragmented remains of their lives. He recounts the
difficulties of returning to some semblance of normal life in the
midst of a complex political climate, culminating in his daring
escape from Soviet Lithuania. In one of the darkest eras of human
history, there were those who proved that the goodness of the human
spirit survives against all odds. Boy with a Violin pays tribute to
those who risked everything to save a life, and whose altruism
crossed the boundaries of race and religion. In this first English
translation of Boy with a Violin, Fein continues to offer his
testimony to the strength of the human spirit.
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