Ship of the Hunted Contributor(s): Elberg, Yehuda (Author), Elberg, Yehuda (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0815604491 ISBN-13: 9780815604495 Publisher: Syracuse University Press OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 1997 Annotation: 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. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Jewish |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 96-47894 |
Series: Library of Modern Jewish Literature |
Physical Information: 1.12" H x 6.27" W x 9.3" (1.50 lbs) 308 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Topical - Holocaust |
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Publisher Description: This novel recounts the story of one Jewish family's struggle to survive in the squalor of the Warsaw Ghetto - their efforts to find places to hide, and their eventual separation - during the onset of the Holocaust. |