Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love

Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love by Rebecca Frankel

In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing into the forbidding Biatowieza 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 made a nighttime trek across the Alps into Italy, where they settled as refugees before eventually immigrating to the United States.

Earlier, during a ghetto massacre, Miriam Rabinowitz rescued a young boy named Philip by pretending he was her son. Nearly a decade later, a chance encounter at a21. wedding in Brooklyn would lead Philip to find the woman who saved him -- and to discover that her daughter Ruth was the love of his life.

ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, HARDCOVER, 1ST EDITION, 2ND PRINTING, 2021