Review: A Rabbi's Story of Survival
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 22, 2013
I haven't ran across a book written from a Rabbi's point of view about the Holocaust and WWII.  The author spent most of the war in Russia and at times running from the NKVD (soviet secret service).  Spending the war in Russia wasn't easy but maybe a bit better than Poland.  He did not experience concentration camps, but that doesn't mean he did not lose his family.  He and his father were round up pretty quick at the beginning of Poland being overtaken by the Germans because they were rabbi's.  His father had the beard and curls, while the author was more unorthodox in his dress and his appearance did not give him away.  Which may have helped him survive while he was in Poland.I would say 1/2 of the book was his and his family's time during the war and the other half was Jewish theological information.  While I found some of the information he talked to about to be new to me, I personally like the story of survival better in this genre of books and because of that, I found I enjoyed his book less than some of the others I have read.He is still a remarkable man with a remarkable story.