Title: Defying odds
Description: A historical novel based on the author's experiences as a Jew in Nazi Poland and Germany, from age twelve to eighteen, working in an SS warehouse, then as a laborer at Auschwitz, and finally, escaping the concentration camp, becoming a translator for the U.S. Army.
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945, Fiction, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Juvenile fiction, History, Jews, Forced labor, Survival, Jewish families, Jewish wit and humor
Places: Poland, Germany
Time periods: 1918-1945, 1933-1945