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

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 nearl...

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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)
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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