Running Through Fire
Subtitle: How I Survived the Holocaust (Nea Heritage & Preservation Series, 3)
Contributors: Paul Auster (Introduction)
Publisher: Mercury House
Published: April 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781562791285
Subjects: The Holocaust; True stories of endurance & survival; True stories: Second World War; Warsaw; Jewish Holocaust Personal Narratives; History - General History; Women; History / Jewish; Personal Memoirs; History; Jewish - General; History: American; Europe; General; Personal narratives; Biography; Jews; Holocaust; Poland; Goldberg, Zosia; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Description: "A fellow Jew within the Warsaw Ghetto, offended by Zosia Goldberg's unaccented Polish, spat at her in Yiddish: "May you die amongst the goyem!" Zosia took this "curse" as a message from God. It sparked her escape from the Ghetto, convincing her that only by posing as a Gentile could she survive." "And Zosia did not die amongst the goyem - but nearly. She was a "debrouillarde": someone resourceful, someone who could run through fire without getting burned. Her story features resistance at every turn, narrow escapes, and help from the most unlikely sources. At times suffering bitter betrayals by fellow Jews, she also encountered unexpected sympathies from some Nazis themselves. Zosia's story is as much a chronicle of the Holocaust as it is everywoman's struggle against human folly and depravity."--BOOK JACKET.