Jews in the garden : a Holocaust survivor, the fate of his family, and the secret history of Poland in World War II / Judy Rakowsky.
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TextPublisher: Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: xiii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781728254623
- 1728254620
- Holocaust survivor, the fate of his family, and the secret history of Poland in World War II
- Ron, Sam, 1924-
- Ron, Sam, 1924- -- Family
- Rakowski family
- Holocaust victims' families -- United States
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Kazimierza Wielka
- Holocaust survivors -- Poland
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Poland -- Kazimierza Wielka
- Kazimierza Wielka (Poland) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Villages of Poland hide the lost secrets of World War II
1944: Heavy footfalls thud on the road on a rainy May night. A band of gunmen scour a hilltop farm, acting on rumors that it harbors a Jewish family. For 18 months, the Rozeneks have been hiding safely, but their luck is about to run out. Only one from the family of six will live to see the sunrise. Sixteen-year-old Hena Rozenek shelters in the woods until morning... and then she runs.
Forty years later: Holocaust survivor Sam Rakowski Ron has lived in the United States for decades, never thinking he could return to the Polish village he fled as a teenager. But now he's ready to talk about what he heard, what he saw, and what he knows about two separate families of cousins who were his neighbors, and presumably were killed during the war. The story Poland presents to the world is that Poles saved more Jews than citizens of any other nation, that any murders in Poland were committed by Nazis and Nazis alone. But Sam, while defending his countrymen, suspects a painful truth. The stories he shares with his younger cousin, Judy, an investigative journalist, send them off on a decades-long journey unlike any other to find out what happened to the Rozenek family and ultimately reveal the secrets the Polish government is still desperate to keep.
Jews in the Garden is a globe-trotting detective story that turns investigative eyes and ears toward the hidden events in Poland during the Holocaust. Judy and Sam, the unlikeliest of sleuthing duos, knock on doors, petition court documents, seek clandestine meetings, and ultimately discover what really happened to the "Jews in the garden next door."
Includes reading group guide and a conversation with the author.
Includes bibliographical references.
"Investigative journalist Judy Rakowsky and her elderly cousin Sam, a Holocaust survivor, never knew what happened to their family during the Holocaust. All they knew was that their relatives were hidden away from the Nazis by neighbors, and then they were never heard from again. Over the course of two decades, the two traveled back to Sam's hometown in Poland in search of clues to what became of their lost family-but when they asked questions, doors were shut in their faces. As they soon learned, Poland has done all it can to obscure its involvement with the Nazi party... A globe-trotting detective story, JEWS IN THE GARDEN turns investigative eyes and ears towards the horrific actions taken by regular citizens during the Holocaust. This unlikely sleuthing pair knocks on doors, petitions court documents, gets run off properties, seeks clandestine meetings, and ultimately discovers what really happened to the "Jews in the garden next door.""-- Provided by publisher.