Escape: A Child's Survival in the Holocaust

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Seven-year-old Paul's world is shattered when the Germans bombed his Polish town at the outset of WWII. He braced for what was ahead:

2 years under Russian occupation
Being forced into a Jewish ghetto for over a year
Escaping through the barbed wire hours before the ghetto was liquidated and watching as 13,000 inmates were sent to Auschwitz
Months hiding in a potato shed in a field during winter
2 years alone, wandering in German-occupied Poland, working on farms while hiding from the Nazis.

Only thirteen when the war was over, it took Paul a lifetime to piece together the story of his family's suffering during those six brutal years, the Holocaust. This tale of a Jewish child's brave struggle with war and racism is one of horror and of hope.

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In this memoir, Paul Gruszniewski recounts the horrors of the Second World War from a child's perspective. Originally from Poland, Paul moved to the U.S. in 1960, and worked as an engineer for Boeing. He currently lives in the Seattle area.Neil Larsen is a musician from Los Angeles who is known for his work with Leonard Cohen and George Harrison, among others. He is the husband of Paul's daughter, Mara.