Gone to Pitchipoï : : a boy's desperate fight for survival in wartime / / Rubin Katz.

Memoirs of a Jew born in 1931 in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland. The town was occupied by the Germans in 1939, and in spring 1941 Rubin and his family were interned in the ghetto. Most of the family survived the large roundup of October 1942, when ca. 10,000 Jews were deported to Treblinka. In ea...

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Superior document:Jews of Poland
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Place / Publishing House:Boston, Massachusetts : : Academic Studies Press,, [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Jews of Poland.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xviii, 326 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Foreword / Stephen Smith
  • Introduction / Antony Polonsky
  • 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 Pitchipoi
  • 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.