Running Through Fire - How I Survived the Holocaust (Paperback)

"Du solst starben zwischem goyem!" A fellow Jew within the Warsaw Ghetto, offended by Zosia Goldberg's Polish of no Yiddish accent, spat at her in Yiddish: "May you die amongst the goyem!" Zosia took this 'curse' instead as a message from God. Her dramatic tale begins with her escaping the Warsaw Ghetto through the sewer, whereafter she survived the Holocaust posing as a Gentile. Zosia did not die amongst the goyem, and yet along her dangerous journey she should have died on numerous occasions. She was a 'debrouillarde', someone who could run through fire without getting burned. Hers is a story of resistance at every turn, of continual attempts at sabotage, of perpetually escaping and defeating the enemy. Her account is filled with unique energy and a wonder at the strangeness of human behaviour. For not only did she suffer bitter betrayals by fellow Jews, she also encountered the unexpected sympathies of Nazis, and was at many times aided by her very tormentors. This is not just a story of the Holocaust, but of a woman struggling to make sense of human folly and depravity.

General

Imprint:	Mercury House
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2004
First published:	2004
Authors:	Zosia Goldberg
As told by:	Hilton Obenzinger
Introduction by:	Paul Auster
Dimensions:	140 x 215 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	189
ISBN-13:	978-1-56279-128-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > True stories > Endurance & survival Books > Fiction > True stories > War / combat / elite forces > General Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust Books > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
LSN:	1-56279-128-1
Barcode:	9781562791285

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