Description:
Children Save Yourselves! is a compelling true story of two Jewish brothers who survived the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland. One brother the author's father endured several concentration camps including the infamous camp at Auschwitz as well as a horrific winter death march. The other brother the author's uncle survived outside of the camps by passing as a Catholic among anti-Semitic Poles including a group of anti-Nazi Polish partisans eventually becoming an officer in the Soviet Army. The book traces the defining prewar wartime and postwar events that marked their extraordinary lives.
Brief description: Ronald J. Berger is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He has published numerous books and articles on topics that include crime and criminal justice, disability, and the Holocaust, most recently, Sociology and the Holocaust: A Discipline Grapples with History. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, he currently lives in Fitchburg, Wisconsin.