Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love -- Rebecca Frankel, Hardcover

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.

Author: Rebecca Frankel
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 09/07/2021
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.73w x 1.33d
ISBN: 9781250267641

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/14/2021
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2021
Booklist 08/01/2021 pg. 19
Library Journal 09/01/2021 pg. 76

About the Author
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.