Review by Booklist Review
The third volume in the Holocaust Memoirs series, coproduced by the Holocaust Centre of Toronto, the UJA Federation, and Mosaic Press, is the story of Morris Gruda, a Polish Jew, who was born in 1919 in Rozhan, a town approximately 80 kilometers northeast of Warsaw. The Germans occupied the town on September 8, 1939, and by then Gruda had served two apprenticeships as a ladies tailor. He fled Nazi-occupied Poland and escaped to the Soviet Union, where he eventually was drafted into the Russian corps that built and maintained the railway lines required for the war effort. Few survived this task because of the inadequate rations. Gruda's mother and two of his sisters died from hunger and disease. He later located his father, younger sister, and the little daughter of one of his sisters who died. In a displaced-persons camp in occupied West Germany, he married, and the couple immigrated to Canada. A highly readable treatment of one man's survival. --George Cohen Copyright 2006 Booklist
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Review by Booklist Review
