This is the story of one family's struggle to survive in the squalor of the Warsaw ghetto during the onset of the Holocaust. Yossel Yurek is a thirteen-year-old Jew whose ingenuity in smuggling goods in and out of his community saved the lives of those dear to him-as well as his own. It is the story of his mother, Golda, who courageously escaped from Treblinka. It is the true story of a family forever torn asunder by war. By January 1943, everyone in Warsaw knew that the deportations of the ghetto residents meant the death of the ghetto inhabitants. After Yurek's older sister was deported, Yurek attempted to find a hiding place for himself and his younger sister, Hannah, while his mother, Golda, remained at home to earn money in order to pay the Polish family who hid her two children. With the power of description that only actual experience can endow, Yehuda Elberg relates the birth, death, and resurrection of a dynasty.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0815604491
ISBN13:9780815604495
Release Date:May 1997
Publisher:Syracuse University Press
Length:308 Pages
Weight:1.50 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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Ship of the Hunted is the second in a loosely-linked series about Jewish life leading up to, during, and after the Holocaust. Elberg is a phenomenal writer who paints clearly a picture of the mental strife and anguish that so many were forced to go through. Dealing with family loyalties, religious loyalties, and general dislocation of mind, body, and spirit, Elberg truly is one of the masters of contemporary Yiddish Literature! Praise to Dr. Barbara E. Galli too, for making the translation as alive as the original text and the events as well!
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