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Run East
Jack Pomerantz
Lyric Wallwork Winik
其他書名
Flight from the Holocaust
出版
University of Illinois Press
, 1997
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Historical
History / Jewish
History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General
History / World
History / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust
ISBN
0252023250
9780252023255
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=_B-VxTjAyjkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Jack Pomerantz fled east from his home in Radzyn, Poland, when the German planes attacked, walking by night and hiding in the forests of eastern Europe by day. He was just twenty-one when this saga of devastating loss and inspiring courage began. His flight took him on a harrowing, dangerous odyssey through Siberia, to Taskent, to Siberia again, and then - in Polish uniform - back to his home as a liberator. A peddler's son who had known only poverty throughout his childhood and adolescence, Pomerantz provides a poignant picture of the many Jewish refugees who had to escape not only Nazi terror but also the forces of Stalin and the NKVD, the forerunner of the KGB. Run East provides remarkable detail about a part of the Holocaust that has remained relatively unexplained - the world of European Jews who escaped into what was then the Soviet Union, only to be used by the Soviets, sometimes as laborers in Siberia and sometimes as soldiers fighting on the eastern front. Lyric Wallwork Winik conducted nearly two hundred hours of interviews with Pomerantz to create her narrative, then verified dates, events, and locations through extensive archival research. The result is a revealing look at the life of one man who absolutely refused to give up or give in.