Surviving The Forest (World War II Brave Women Fiction) - Softcover

Geffen, Adiva; ReadMore Press

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1796269409 ISBN 13: 9781796269406

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

A consistent Amazon bestseller for over 3 years, Surviving the Forest is a powerful tribute to love and resilience and the captivating account of a woman’s strength, based on a true story.

Five shots on Saturday morning change their fate forever…

Poland, 1939. Shurka is a happy young woman who lives a fairy tale life with her beloved husband and their two young children, in a pretty house in a village in Poland.

She believes that nothing can hurt them. Or so she thinks…

Then, World War II breaks out and the happy family quickly understands that their happiness has come to a brutal end. The family is forced to flee their house and find shelter in a neighboring ghetto, where they come to realized that the Gestapo is taking Jews away on trucks every night, never to be seen again.

The family makes a brave and difficult choice to flee to the dark forest. There, surrounded by animals, they know that this is their only chance of escaping the real beasts. They have no idea what will await them, but they know that doing nothing is not an option if they wish to survive.

About this title

From the Author

I first heard the story of Shurka when I was 20 years old. She was a childhood friend of my mother, and when she immigrated to Israel, she sat and told us her story and we all listened. I remember telling myself, this story is a masterpiece. This is a story worthy of a book that must be written. This is a story of a simple,regular woman who lived in some Polish village, whose whole dream was to raise her babies, milk the cows, and curl up under a heavy quilt with her husband in their little hut. The war came and destroyed everything, the Germans came and she understood that it was all over, but she did not let her spirit wither, the war did not destroy that strongest instinct of all, the love of life that pulsed within her.

Review

"A powerful book, you must read this amazing story in order to appreciate the life that has been given to us and to hang on to what we have." - Radio New Delhi
 
"In Sahitia Academy Conference I met the author ADIVA GEFFEN. She gave us to read parts of her new book. After reading it we implored her to read the whole book and so we did.
Starting reading, you can't let it go,it is a story about an exceptional woman who knew to choose. Life and love. It is a story about people, Jewish people, who survived the dark yet live saving forest, while escaping from Nazi soldiers and their dogs. it is about victory of Jews who survived the holocaust, each of them in its own way." - Time of India 2016

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1796269409
• ISBN 13: 9781796269406
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 231