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
hardcover
ISBN-10
0312244150
ISBN-13
9780312244156
Publication Date
Sep 1999
Item Weight
1.00 pounds
Length
10.00 inch
Width
6.00 inch
Height
1.00 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.
