Author(s): Frank Blaichman

History/Politics

Frank Blaichman was 16 when, in September 1939, the Germans invaded Poland, starting World War II. A native of Kamionka, Frank was the oldest of seven children - and vowed that he would never surrender to the Nazis' persecution of the Jews in his town. The night before the Jews were loaded onto trucks and taken to death camps, Frank escaped into a nearby forest - soon acquiring weapons and forming an underground Jewish fighting force. A harrowing, utterly moving memoir of a young Polish Jew who defied the mighty German war machine.