The true-to-life account of a sensitive Jewish youth who was caught in the throes of World War II. It starts with his childhood in a provincial Polish city and continues on through his adolescence in Warsaw and the early occupation of the country. He escapes to the Soviet Union, where he works in hard-labor camps, from the extreme north of the Ural Mountains to the Caspian Sea and back. Then comes his dramatic return to postwar Poland and its grisly aftermath, where he is confronted by the loss of his family and the search for a sole surviving brother among the ashes of the Holocaust. Ultimately, his story is intended to serve as a testament to the strength of the human spirit, which must rise above the breakdown of civilized values caused by devastating wars if it is to survive.
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Jacob Zylberman was born in Radom, Poland, and spent his childhood there. The family moved to Warsaw in the years just preceding the outbreak of World War II. After the outbreak of the war, he escaped the German raids of the city and found refuge in the Soviet Union. During the war, he labored as an "alien" on Soviet railroads. Upon his return to Warsaw after the war, he was reunited with his older brother Leon, the only family member who survived the Holocaust. In 1948, he joined his brother in New York, and in 1953 he married Lois Dworkin. They raised two sons, David and Philip. The Zylbermans have three grandchildren.
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