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

Katz, Rubin, 1931-,

Gone to Pitchipoï : a boy's desperate fight for survival in wartime / Rubin Katz. - 1 online resource (xviii, 326 pages) : illustrations - Jews of Poland . - Jews of Poland. .

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

In Gone to Pitchipoi Katz vividly recalls his experience growing up in the turmoil of WWII, and his extraordinary escape from the constant threats of Nazi occupied Poland. Born in 1931 in the picturesque countryside of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyskie, wherein more than a third of the population was Jewish, Katz experienced a constant juxtaposition of traditional ways of life with the tragedies of those years. Deemed unfit for labor camps, Katz was marked for certain death and forced to live on the run in a daily quest for food, shelter, and friendship. He eventually reunited with his sister, Fela, together encountering a series of narrow escapes and forging on to see the day of liberation. This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the fate of Jews in small Polish towns during the Second World War.


English.

9781618112354 161811235X 9781618116840 1618116843 1618112740 9781618112743 9781306150057 1306150051

22573/ctt1zwpst4 JSTOR 101810 Knowledge Unlatched


Katz, Rubin, 1931-
Katz, Rubin, 1931-


1939-1945


Jewish children in the Holocaust--Poland--Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski--Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Historical.
HISTORY--Holocaust.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Personal Memoirs.
Jewish children in the Holocaust.


Poland.
Poland--Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
Biographies.

DS135.P63 / K38 2012eb

940.53/18/092