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

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From a little-known chapter of Holocaust history, Rebecca Frankel's Into the Forest is one family's inspiring true story of love, escape, and survival. In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza 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 trekked across the Alps into Italy where they settled as refugees before eventually immigrating to the United States. During the first ghetto massacre, Miriam Rabinowitz rescued a young boy named Philip by pretending he was her son. Nearly a decade later, a chance encounter at a wedding in Brooklyn would lead Philip to find the woman who saved him. And to discover her daughter Ruth was the love of his life. From a little-known chapter of Holocaust history, one family's inspiring true story.

Rebecca Frankel is the author of New York Times bestselling book, War Dogs: Tales of Canine Heroism, History, and Love. She is former executive editor at Foreign Policy magazine. Her work has appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and National Geographic, among others. She lives in Washington, DC.

Alma's 8 JEWISH BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS SEPTEMBER NAMED ONE OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL'S BEST 10 BOOK OF SEPTEMBER Frankel is an extremely gifted writer. --Roxanne Coady, What Should You Read This Summer on Just the Right Book Page-turning... an even more improbable fairy tale about rescue, reunion and romantic love. --The Forward "[An] extraordinary story. --Booklist A gripping story of one family's courage and resourcefulness under life-threatening conditions. --Kirkus (Starred review) Inspirational... Readers will be on the edge of their seats. --Publisher's Weekly An excellent choice for serious book clubs that have previously chosen challenging titles like Tatiana de Rosnay's Sarah's Key and Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise. --Book Trib "Frankel demonstrates the resilience of the human spirit, even when all appears to be lost." --Peter Bergen, author of The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden One of the most moving, thrilling, inspiring books anyone will read all year, fiction or non-fiction! --David Rothkopf, author of Traitor Gave me goosebumps, actual goosebumps... Thrilling and heartwarming, without masking horror and tragedy." --David Plotz, former CEO Atlas Obscura, author of Good Book Set in one of the world's last remaining primeval forests, this story of horror and heroism has the trappings of a grim fairy tale: Once upon a terrible time, after so much loss and devastation, one unlikely couple found their happily ever after. --Ilana Kurshan, author of If All the Seas Were Ink, winner of the Sami Rohr Prize "Hard to put down... A tragic, yet uplifting, tale of human fortitude and love that needs to be told and widely read." --Allan Levine, author of Fugitives of the Forest "What makes Into the Forest truly memorable is Frankel's uncanny empathy for her characters... She never allows us to look away, nor do we want to, no matter how terrible the events of this powerful narrative." --Glenn Frankel, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author