{"product_id":"a-jew-in-the-woods-pages-from-a-diary-9798998779862","title":"A Jew in the Woods: Pages from a Diary","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A rare, if not singular, Holocaust-era artifact... It offers the chance to enrich a little-explored topic of World War II history, one often left out of the broader canon of Holocaust narratives: the Jews who escaped Nazi persecution and fled to the woods of Eastern Europe.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Rebecca Frankel, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eInto the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e Of the 35,000 Lithuanian Jews trapped by the Germans in the Kovno Ghetto, most did not survive. Berl Kagan, a 34-year-old journalist and political activist, was among the few who escaped the ghetto before it was liquidated. Yet this bid for freedom was only the first step in a protracted quest to cheat almost-certain death. With his wife and sister-in-law, Kagan spent nine months in the forest, facing near-starvation, freezing temperatures, and the ever-present threat of capture and murder. The Red Army was advancing--but how many miracles would it take to see the day of liberation? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the course of those dark, intrepid months, Kagan somehow kept a journal, recording his day-to-day life with unflinching lucidity and eloquence. The experience of Jews who fled to the woods of Eastern Europe during the Holocaust is little documented--but here we have an electrifying, real-time account of, in the author's words, \"one long, horror-filled drama.\" Both riveting and ashimmer with moral beauty and hope, A Jew in the Woods is an astonishing testament to the resilience of the human spirit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Berl Kagan,Max Rosenfeld\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e White Goat Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/18\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798998779862","brand":"White Goat Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738093727881,"sku":"9798998779862","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_7fa8eb0d-db8b-43b8-8a57-4d11c909278c.jpg?v=1792522263","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/a-jew-in-the-woods-pages-from-a-diary-9798998779862","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}