Rebecca Frankel's Into the Forest is a gripping story of love,
escape, and survival, from wartime Poland to a courtship in the
Catskills.
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.