Today the small town is located in Dyatlovo, Belarus.
Along with their parents, Morris and Miriam, they miraculously escaped the second liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Zhetel in the summer of 1942. Author Rebecca Frankel based the book on a series of in-depth interviews with Tania and Rochel Rabinowitz. But those stories are not as widely known. Pockets of militant Jewish resistance surfaced in smaller ghettos across Nazi-occupied central-eastern Europe too. It's a story that should be told over and over again. It saw more than 400,000 Jews packed into the largest urban ghetto created by the Nazis in Europe, leading to a Jewish uprising on April 1943 that was crushed four weeks later. Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love, by Rebecca FrankelĬountless books have been written - and films made - about the Warsaw Ghetto.
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