Gone To Pitchipoi : : a Boy's Desperate Fight For Survival In Wartime / / Rubin Katz.

• VerfasserIn: Katz, Rubin, 1931-
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press,, [2017]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Jews of Poland
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (348 pages)

This vivid and moving memoir describes the survival of a Jewish child in the hell of Nazi occupied Poland. Rubin Katz was born in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyskie, Poland, in 1931. This town, located in the picturesque countryside of central Poland 42 miles south of Radom, had in 1931 a population of nearly 30,000, of whom more than a third were Jews. The persistence of traditional ways of life and the importance of the local hasidic rebbe, Yechiel-Meier (Halevi) Halsztok, as well as the introduction of such modernities as bubble gum, are clearly and effectively described here. This memoir is remarkable for the ability of its author to recall so many events in detail and for the way he is able to be fair to all those caught up in the tragic dilemmas of those years. It is a major contribution to our understanding of the fate of Jews in smaller Polish towns during the Second World War and the conditions which made it possible for some of them, like Rubin, to survive.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- I Shall Not Submit -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword / Smith, Stephen -- Introduction / Polonsky, Antony -- Prologue: A Carefree Childhood -- Chapter 1: War! War! Is Their Cry -- Chapter 2: The Nightmare Begins -- Chapter 3: The Large Ghetto -- Chapter 4: In the Hen-House -- Chapter 5: Gone to Pitchipoï -- Chapter 6: Like a Ghetto Rat -- Chapter 7: The Brickyard -- Chapter 8: A Shallow Grave -- Chapter 9: Deadly Encounter -- Chapter 10: My Guardian Angel -- Chapter 11: An "Angel" in Nazi Uniform -- Chapter 12: Jewish Pilgrim at the Black Madonna -- Chapter 13: The Warsaw Inferno -- Chapter 14: Shelter at a Police Colony -- Chapter 15: "Robinson Crusoe" -- Chapter 16: Stefek: Leader of the Gang -- Chapter 17: A Shaft of Light -- Chapter 18: Lublin Orphanage -- Chapter 19: Shattered Homecoming -- Chapter 20: Passage to Tower Bridge -- Chapter 21: Adieu Poland: Welcome to Woodberry Down -- Epilogue