By Rubin Katz
Foreword by Dr Stephen Smith OBE
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Copyright © 2011 by Rubin Katz. All rights reserved.
GONE TO PITCHIPOI is an extraordinary true story of a Jewish boy on the run in wartime Poland. It is an inspiration to read and a testament to the will to live and the courage to endure. Too young to be deemed fit for slave labour the boy is marked for certain death. Yet, he clings to life in a breathtaking journey from the depth of human despair to the hand of the guardian angel that saves him, time after time, from his deadly encounters. To keep ahead of his pursuers, Rubin must run and hide in ghetto cellars or he prowls in derelict buildings or slinks like a bog-rat in the nearby marshes.
Hounded at every turn, the boy drifts from place to place and now assumes a new role. Armed with a baptismal certificate he hides behind the mask of the ‘Aryan’ boy Stefek. After a hazardous journey he reaches Warsaw to be reunited with his elder sister. Encountering narrow escapes from the Nazis but they resolve to fight on to survive. By the end of July 1944, the sound of Russian guns become clearly audible in Warsaw and the boy dreams of celebrating his Barmitzvah in freedom. Meanwhile, the Polish Uprising erupts and instead of his Barmitzvah initiation, he undergoes a baptism of fire in the Warsaw inferno.
This riveting and richly detailed ‘adventure’ story with its unpredictable twists and turns is set against key events in the war. Rubin, alias Stefek, comes over as a likeable and daring ‘rascal’ who tells his story with a keen eye for detail and with such sensitivity that it will touch the hearts and move the spirit of his readers for a long time to come.
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