Publication
Cambridge Massachusetts : BrightField Books. 2014
Collection
Call number
Biography S
Physical description
184 p.; 23 cm
Status
Available
Call number
Description
An Improbable Journey is an incredible and unique story about two European Jews who beat impossible odds.Through an extraordinary chain of events, a German Jew and a Polish Jew find themselves in Central Asia. They fall in love and struggle to survive hunger, homelessness, deadly epidemics, a black market economy, and Soviet police harassment. After the war, they manage to get from Central Asia to a displaced persons camp in Southern Germany. Along the way, they have a baby. Incredibly, in the DP camp, this Jewish couple formed an enduring friendship, which defied the hatreds of the time, with a German woman and put their baby in her care.
Language
ISBN
9780989437721