Tell Your Son - Belilovskiy, Mikhail

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Résumé :
Mendele, who grew up in a Jewish neighborhood of a small town in the Ukraine, went to attend college in Kiev. Mendele started to make new friends, met his first love, but World War II broke out and changed his life forever. Mendele embarked on a long journey, in which he survived fierce battles and capture by the Nazis, wit-nessed the death of his family at the hands of the SS, and traveled through al-most 400 miles of occupied territory to reach freedom. Throughout his ordeal, Mendele encountered cruelty, betrayal, courage, and selfless willingness of people to help others in peril. This book is a fictionalized account of real-life events in the author's life. Archival photos and historical commentary were added to place the described events in a larger historical context.