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A fascinating read that portrays life in Telz, the vibrant Jewish shtetl or market town that was also a famous Yeshiva center.--Robert Shapiro professor of Judaic studies at Brooklyn College, CUNY With an enchanting eye for detail, Moishe Rosenbaumas tells a lesser known story out of the Holocaust: escape to Russia from Lithuania, heroic service in the Red Army, hair-raising escape from the Soviet Union and successful resettlement in France. His is a fresh and unique voice and his book deserves recognition as a literary masterpiece in the library of Jewish memoir literature of the twentieth century.--David Biale Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor, University of California, Davis A riveting story of a resilient survivor who underwent the most harrowing experiences during the time of World War II and its aftermath, never lost courage, always exhibited saving resourcefulness, and emerged from it all to build a good life for himself and his family. This is far from a run-of-the-mill memoir about the horrors of the Holocaust, and it will be a real gift to American readers.--Robert Alter Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley

A fascinating read that portrays life in Telz, the vibrant Jewish shtetl or market town that was also a famous Yeshiva center.--Robert Shapiro professor of Judaic studies at Brooklyn College, CUNY With an enchanting eye for detail, Moishe Rosenbaumas tells a lesser known story out of the Holocaust: escape to Russia from Lithuania, heroic service in the Red Army, hair-raising escape from the Soviet Union and successful resettlement in France. His is a fresh and unique voice and his book deserves recognition as a literary masterpiece in the library of Jewish memoir literature of the twentieth century.--David Biale Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor, University of California, Davis A riveting story of a resilient survivor who underwent the most harrowing experiences during the time of World War II and its aftermath, never lost courage, always exhibited saving resourcefulness, and emerged from it all to build a good life for himself and his family. This is far from a run-of-the-mill memoir about the horrors of the Holocaust, and it will be a real gift to American readers.--Robert Alter Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley [An] incredibly gripping memoir. --Elaine Margolin, The Jerusalem Post

"A fascinating read that portrays life in Telz, the vibrant Jewish shtetl or market town that was also a famous Yeshiva center. With an enchanting eye for detail, Moishe Rosenbaumas tells a lesser known story out of the Holocaust: escape to Russia from Lithuania, heroic service in the Red Army, hair-raising escape from the Soviet Union and successful resettlement in France. His is a fresh and unique voice and his book deserves recognition as a literary masterpiece in the library of Jewish memoir literature of the twentieth century. A riveting story of a resilient survivor who underwent the most harrowing experiences during the time of World War II and its aftermath, never lost courage, always exhibited saving resourcefulness, and emerged from it all to build a good life for himself and his family. This is far from a run-of-the-mill memoir about the horrors of the Holocaust, and it will be a real gift to American readers. ""[An] incredibly gripping memoir."

A fascinating read that portrays life in Telz, the vibrant Jewish shtetl or market town that was also a famous Yeshiva center.--Robert Shapiro professor of Judaic studies at Brooklyn College, CUNY

[An] incredibly gripping memoir.-- Elaine Margolin, The Jerusalem Post [A] remarkably compelling read.-- Tablet Magazine A fascinating read that portrays life in Telz, the vibrant Jewish shtetl or market town that was also a famous Yeshiva center.-- Robert Shapiro, professor of Judaic studies at Brooklyn College, CUNY A riveting story of a resilient survivor who underwent the most harrowing experiences during the time of World War II and its aftermath, never lost courage, always exhibited saving resourcefulness, and emerged from it all to build a good life for himself and his family. This is far from a run-of-the-mill memoir about the horrors of the Holocaust, and it will be a real gift to American readers.-- Robert Alter, Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley From the page before the opening of Moishe Rozenbaumas' incisive, heart-felt memoir we already feel the pain that will be inherent throughout much of his story. . . . Rozenbaumas concludes his touching narrative with the hope that the stories of the European Jewish civilization that was brutally erased from the face of the earth will not be forgotten.-- Curt Leviant, The Canadian Jewish News May such translations across language, time and place continue, keeping these important voices alive.-- Howard Freedman, The Jewish News of California With an enchanting eye for detail, Moishe Rosenbaumas tells a lesser known story out of the Holocaust: escape to Russia from Lithuania, heroic service in the Red Army, hair-raising escape from the Soviet Union and successful resettlement in France. His is a fresh and unique voice and his book deserves recognition as a literary masterpiece in the library of Jewish memoir literature of the twentieth century.-- David Biale, Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor, University of California, Davis

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Isabelle Rozenbaumas is a filmmaker, translator, and independent researcher. Her translations include Hitler's Professors: The Part of Scholarship in Germany's Crimes against the Jewish People. Rozenbaumas was the recipient of a 2013–2014 Baltic Jewish Studies Fellowship from YIVO’s Max Weinreich Center.

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