Dare To Survive: The Holocaust Diaries

In the summer of 1939, all of Poland trembled as it prepared for an all-out attack by Nazi Germany. For the Polish Jews the looming nightmare was infinitely darker, but when the attack finally came, the calamity that befell the Jewish people was far beyond the darkest nightmare conceivable, far worse than had ever befallen a people in the history of humanity. Dare to Survive, the third volume in The Holocaust Diaries, is the amazing and deeply inspiring memoir of Chaim Shlomo Friedman, a young Belzer chassid from Cracow who survived the holocaust through a combination of resourcefulness, cunning, tenacity, sheer endurance and an indomitable spirit buttressed by unshakable faith. His powerful narrative, written with deep humility and a very convincing authenticity, evokes countless disturbing images of a world gone mad. Flight along refugee-choked roads. Running through the fields before a hail of German bullets. Conscription into forced labor battalions. Frightening arrests and brutal