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A gripping and heartfelt memoir of the author's parents and their shared struggle to survive the Holocaust in Poland. 'A story of heroism and of touching romance in a time of fear and danger' "USA Today"
About the author
Jack and Rochelle Sutin married in 1942 and remained together until Rochelle's death in 2010 at the age of 86. They have two children, Cecilia and Lawrence, and three grandchildren, David, Danny, and Sarah.
Lawrence Sutin is the author of numerous works including A Postcard Memoir and the critically acclaimed All Is Change: The Two-Thousand Year Journey of Buddhism to the West.
Summary
In this gripping and heartfelt memoir, Jack and Rochelle Sutin recount their shared struggle to survive the Holocaust in Poland.
Though they grew up in the same village, Jack and Rochelle only knew each other at a distance, having once shared a clumsy high school dance. After the German invasion, they were torn from their families and their homes and forced to live in ghetto labour camps by the Nazis. Each managed a daring escape into the surrounding forest, where they happened upon each other and, along with thousands of other Jews, banded together to join the Polish underground resistance.
Narrated alternately between the two of them (as told to their son Lawrence), Jack & Rochelle illuminates the extreme conditions the pair endured while living for years in a bunker in the woods - near-starvation, disease, and the constant threat of death - and the impossible love affair that grew out of it, and lasted more than fifty years. More than an account of stark survival, Jack & Rochelle is an inspirational story of courage, resiliency, and, above all, true love.
Foreword
'A story of heroism and of touching romance in a time of fear and danger.' - USA Today
