Courage and Grace (World War II True Story) [Paperback] Komem, Yoseph; ReadMore Press and Again, Never

Two young Jewish brothers. A war raging around them. A true story of survival.

In the darkest days of the Holocaust, Joseph and Yitzhak are two young brothers hiding under false Christian identities, anything to avoid the ghetto and the trains that leave, never to return. Reliant on the goodness of strangers, the two boys struggle, sometimes together but often apart, to conceal their true identities.

They know that even the smallest mistake can be catastrophic – and more than once find themselves terrifyingly close to discovery.

But even as their lives outside the ghetto become increasingly fraught with peril, Joseph and Yitzhak never waver from the incredible courage and grace instilled in them by their parents – all for one goal only. To survive.

Courage and Grace is the inspiring and heartfelt story of one small family's bid for survival against the brutal Nazi occupation. It will break your heart and, at the same time, fill you with enormous faith in the good of man.

In order to enable my functioning and development, my memories of the Holocaust period were at first stored in deep freeze. When relations with Poland allowed for this (1982), we invited representatives of one rescuers' family to be hosted at our home and to receive official recognition. My silence was broken then, and the details of this unbelievable story began to be written. At first I started unloading the memories one event after another. Later on I interviewed witnesses and collected additional documents in order to expose the full truth in detail and to better understand and draw conclusions in depth. The enormity of this amazing human story and the vastness of the authentic historical material called for editing and distribution in book form. In an effort to aid the reader, I added family trees, a map of wanderings, and an index of the persons mentioned. In most cases I transcribed the names of people and places in Polish, so that Polish readers, and among them the individuals and their families in this story, could recognize the characters and places of events.