A Jewish pianist's real-life account of survival in World War II Warsaw. Separated in a mêlée, he fights to rejoin his family as they board the death train, but police block him. "Papa!" he cries. The father waves, "as if I were setting out into life and he was already greeting me from beyond the grave."
Book Details
Format
paperback
ISBN-10
0753814056
ISBN-13
9780753814055
Publication Date
Jan 2002
Item Weight
0.48 pounds
Length
7.80 inch
Width
5.12 inch
Height
0.71 inch
First Sentence
I began my wartime career as a pianist in the Cafe Nowoczesna, which was in Nowolipki Street in the very heart of the Warsaw ghetto.