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

By Rebecca Frankel and Rebecca Frankel

Book Overview

A 2021 National Jewish Book Award Finalist
One of Smithsonian Magazine's Best History Books of 2021

"An uplifting tale, suffused with a karmic righteousness that is, at times, exhilarating." --Wall Street Journal

"A gripping narrative that reads like a page turning thriller novel." --NPR

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250267641
• ISBN13: 9781250267641
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Inspiring testament of endurance, love, and jubilation

5 Stars, Inspiring testament of endurance, love, and jubilation INTO THE FOREST by Rebecca Frankel Morris and Miriam Rabinowitz, their two young daughters along with their extended families had everything stolen from them and everyone was placed into a newly constructed ghetto at Zhetel. They saw what was beginning to occur with the executions and knew that they had to stay alive at any cost. Since Morris was a forester, he knew the surrounding woods quite well and had made several good life-long Chrisitan friends who would help them in their struggle for survival. Morris decided that they would go hide in the forest instead of allowing themselves to be exterminated by the overzealous nazis who were trying to take over their world. #neverforget #holocaust #ww2 I am quite thankful to #stmartinspress for the complimentary copy of #intotheforest I was under no obligation to post a review.