Gone To Pitchipoi : a Boy's Desperate Fight For Survival In Wartime /

This vivid and moving memoir describes the survival of a Jewish child in the hell of Nazi occupied Poland. Rubin Katz was born in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyskie, Poland, in 1931. This town, located in the picturesque countryside of central Poland 42 miles south of Radom, had in 1931 a population of nearly...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Katz, Rubin (Author)
Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In English.
Published:	Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2017]
Series:	Jews of Poland
Subjects:	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Poland > Personal narratives. Jewish children in the Holocaust > Poland > Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski > Biography. Enfants juifs pendant l'Holocauste > Pologne > Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski > Biographies. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Poland. Poland > Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski. 1939-1945 Electronic books. Biographies. Personal narratives.
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Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
I Shall Not Submit
Contents
Preface
Foreword / Smith, Stephen
Introduction / Polonsky, Antony
Prologue: A Carefree Childhood
Chapter 1: War! War! Is Their Cry
Chapter 2: The Nightmare Begins
Chapter 3: The Large Ghetto
Chapter 4: In the Hen-House
Chapter 5: Gone to Pitchipoï
Chapter 6: Like a Ghetto Rat
Chapter 7: The Brickyard
Chapter 8: A Shallow Grave
Chapter 9: Deadly Encounter
Chapter 10: My Guardian Angel
Chapter 11: An "Angel" in Nazi Uniform
Chapter 12: Jewish Pilgrim at the Black Madonna
Chapter 13: The Warsaw Inferno
Chapter 14: Shelter at a Police Colony
Chapter 15: "Robinson Crusoe"
Chapter 16: Stefek: Leader of the Gang
Chapter 17: A Shaft of Light
Chapter 18: Lublin Orphanage
Chapter 19: Shattered Homecoming
Chapter 20: Passage to Tower Bridge
Chapter 21: Adieu Poland: Welcome to Woodberry Down
Epilogue