Escape from the Pit: A Woman's Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Poland, 1939-1943 (Excelsior Editions)

Escape from the Pit: A Woman's Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Poland, 1939-1943 (Excelsior Editions)

Renia Kukielka
$27.45
Publication Date: November 1st, 2023
Publisher:
Excelsior Editions/State University of New Yo
ISBN:
9781438494777
Pages:
236
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Description

Originally published in Hebrew in 1944, this fascinating and moving account may well be the first memoir of the Holocaust.

About the Author

Renia Kukielka was born in Jedrzejow, Poland, in 1924. During World War II, she was a member of the Zionist youth resistance in Poland. Following her escape to British Mandate Palestine in 1944, she wrote her memoir, Bindudim Uvamachteret: 1939-1943 B'Polin (While Wandering and in the Underground: 1939-1943 in Poland), which was published before the war ended. She died in Haifa, Israel, in 2014.

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