Book description
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…
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1 author picked Into the Forest as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Meticulously researched and well written, Frankel’s vivid narrative attests both to the atrocities of Nazism and to the extraordinary human capacity to endure and survive. For me, this book offers a powerful reminder that the historical facts of human conduct and experiences matter – especially in our current era of political polarization, dehumanization of "the other," and historical amnesia.
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