Child of War

Hardcover 6" x 9" 268 Pages Written by: Rabbi Nachman Seltzer Published by: Artscroll When little Leibish was eight years old, his world came to an end. It had been a wonderful world, the secure and peaceful world of Chassidic Budapest. And now, in an instant, it was gone. The Nazis had arrived, and Leibish and his family were brutally thrust into a world where life hung in the balance each day, where almost no one could be trusted, where British bombers rained down destruction while Gestapo officers lurked in shadows, watching for hidden Jews. With all the many Holocaust histories and memoirs written in the past years, surprisingly few focus on what it was like to be a child during those dark years - for the painful reason that so few children remained to tell the story. Arye Leibish Friedman, scion of a fine Bobover family, was one of those few lucky ones. And he has a remarkable story to tell. Reb Leibish Friedman turned to Nachman Seltzer, the author whose gift for bringing