Surviving The Forest (World War II Brave Women Fiction)
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.
From the Publisher
Publisher : Independently published
Publication date : February 6, 2019
Language : English
Print length : 231 pages
ISBN-10 : 1796269409
ISBN-13 : 978-1796269406
Item Weight : 11.8 ounces
Dimensions : 5 x 0.53 x 8 inches
Book 7 of 14 : World War II Brave Women Fiction
Best Sellers Rank: #156,527 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #11 in Jewish Literary Criticism (Books) #500 in World War II Historical Fiction #506 in Historical World War II & Holocaust Fiction
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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.
From the Publisher
Publisher : Independently published
Publication date : February 6, 2019
Language : English
Print length : 231 pages
ISBN-10 : 1796269409
ISBN-13 : 978-1796269406
Item Weight : 11.8 ounces
Dimensions : 5 x 0.53 x 8 inches
Book 7 of 14 : World War II Brave Women Fiction
Best Sellers Rank: #156,527 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #11 in Jewish Literary Criticism (Books) #500 in World War II Historical Fiction #506 in Historical World War II & Holocaust Fiction
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Andrea H. –
Good!
Excellent story! Good read!
Neesie315 –
Surviving the Forest
This is a beautifully written story about one woman’s life during the horrific days of the German occupation of Poland. This book was written in a style that could be enjoyed by readers young and old. I would recommend this book for fans of “The Diary of Anne Frank”.Sarah “Shurka”Shidlovsky is a normal young woman, starting out her married life with her beloved husband, Avraham, when rumors of Adolf Hitler and his hatred of Jews start to be heard. Soon, Shurka and her family decide to hide in the Parczew Forest. All her life, Shurka has been told that the forest is not a safe place, but now she has to put aside her fears in order to save herself and her family.It is hard to imagine living in a forest without housing, having to dig bunkers in the ground in order to have shelter. Then, when you finally get settled into this home, you have to pick up and move again. Shurka and her family shuffle from bunker to bunker, venturing to stay in granaries during the winter months, surviving on meager rations and no safety. Those who are brave enough (or greedy enough) to help Jews are in danger of death from the Germans.This was an amazing story, well written and full of the dangers and horrors of the times. The author does a wonderful job in her descriptions of the areas, the people, their hopes and their fears. I have read many Holocaust stories and have always wondered why people living in those times didn’t heed the warnings to get away from Hitler’s occupation. In this book, the author relates several instances that make it easier to see that it wouldn’t have been an easy decision to make. In our modern times, we often forget that communication during the late 1930’s was mostly through word of mouth instead of our instant worldwide news.I am always amazed at the resiliency of the human spirit that shines through in stories of Holocaust survivors. Even though it was a horrific time, full of suffering and death, there is always a light at the end of it. The deaths of Shurka’s family during their attempt to stay safe were heartbreaking and the author writes it in such a way that the reader feels every tear. The addition of the immigration of Jews to the new homeland of Israel that was included in this book was very enlightening also.I was given a chance to read this book through a review group, but this review is entirely my own opinion.
Yankeerun –
excellent read
Fascinating history. Moving story. Historically accurate. Touched the heart and made you feel like you were there. Good book and it was true, making it even more powerful.
Kindle CustomerScheli –
Puzzled?
It ceases to amaze astound me how people continually from Adam’s time forward point the finger rage plead beg Yah for the circumstances that they knowingly willingly risks placing themselves inEx: in this bought on self tragedy for not one two or three years but at least for ten years through various people activities this couple and family Chose dispute being forewarned by Jews and Gentle, acquaintances and strangers fleeing ahead of them leaving the terror that they being unlike most well able to leave escape yet they up until the demon was at their front door simply refused to bulge move for one reason only their Comfort Zone. First it was not going to happen then when it began happening a a friend who was Polish in high places thus knowing what was happening and would continue urge begged pleaded with them to flee run for your family’s lives well beingness.Once it was in their faces still tgey said it would not effect them as they were too valuable to be mistreated, once it was at their door they said she could not travel with a baby nor pregnant too u comfortable.Eventually fleeing with only valuables in the winter with a child and pregnant and caught up in all they refused chose not to believe they end up in a hole in the ground cold hungry and the baby ill.The baby is unintentionally smothered in an attempt to silence his crying as they his in the hole from the. Nazis Shepherd dogs hunting them down when had they listened and left if not when she was little but after she was married they would have been relatively safe doing AliYah in Yisrael.The babe died and she as she had been doing rants and raves at Yahuah for bringing this horror down upon her and hers.Many ask where was Yah when all if this terror happened to us, to answer for you and myself is the same place you left Him by refusing to here from Him.There was a man who was promised long life through Yahuah YahShua’s protection.He had a fishing accident and in the ocean with a rubber life ring. A fishing boat appeared and offered him a ride he replied,no Yah promised to save keep me. Ge waited a yacht came along a few hours later same thing he declined the ride saying no Yah promised to save me. Finally a battleship came and again he refused.He finally succumbed to the elements.In glory he asked Anna You promised to save me and that Id have a long life- what happened.Yah replied as He did with righteous Job, first I sent the fisherman , you refused, then I sent the yatchtman you refused, finally I sent the army you refused.Adam did the sane thing being an highly intelligent being made in Yahs image and likeness having been well schooled by Yah and where he was and what was what doing their daily father son walks in the Garden of Yahs Delights he was well aware of his decisions in fact he was blankly up front foretold thus forewarned “disobey instructions for life and that day you die”He disobeyed, Yah being Avinu Ell Rachanum ve chanun, Our Father all merciful and full of grace favor ask him what happened, already knowing giving him an op teshuvah repent turn back. . Rather than that he, Adam hardened his heart stiffened his neck and actually unlike, King David who repented when approached, he pointed the finger and said, ” that woman You gave me…”And by the way unlike what is commonly said Adam did die that very day. He died at 900plus years which when you read you know that in Yahuah eternal reckoning a Day is 1000 years earth time. So he jumped out of the ark of safely in the morning died spirit wise in fellowship speaking reproducing spirit being to speaking reproducing spirit being immediately its obvious by his blatant reply to his exceedingly kind Father Creator Yahuah Who had made him Emperor of Earth.And by that night Yah’s time he was dead.We have inherited in our dna that virus of rebellion to please self and hardness of heart to admit it is us.
Steven Bouchard –
Stunning educational real life story!
5 starts as I am not allowed to do 100! I have read a lot of Holocaust stories over the years. This one truly shows how and why hatred, suspicion and prejudices proliferate and how lack of knowledge can cause tragic harm. And it still lives today. Sadly, as a child, I was taught that Jews killed Jesus. As I aged and read more I found that it was a despicable lie. I was raised a Catholic! I had many friends in San Francisco of different races and religions. We all got along well until older people started spreading lies. I was in 2nd grade when I first learned African Americans were slaves, my second best friend, that my first best friend, Japanese, had family that lived in WW II internment camps. As a 2nd grader, I was shocked and appalled. Just an idea of me.I recommend that this book be required reading in junior high and high school and urge that Holocaust survivors be listened to, teach, be respected and be world class leaders, as are the Jews of Israel and the state/country of Israel.There are too many lies told and ignorance, fear, disrespect, suspicions and old tales!By all rights, in today’s world, Israel and then America are the leading opponents to such tragedies.So sad and may G-d bless all of the Jewish people and Israel. Meanwhile, currently, America needs to pull itself up by the bootstraps.After reading so many stories this 65 year old geezer has placed visiting Israel and learning Judaism at the top of the list in my Bucket list.
Kindle Customer Big Lyn –
I finished reading this amazing story in a day! Well written! I felt as though I was actually there and experiencing everything myself!
Michael Bully –
Found this novel very moving. The Jewish ghettos in the cities tend to get highlighted more. However this novel opens with the story of a Jewish family in a village in the east of Poland in the years running up to World War 2. Their life seemed idyllic . An insight is given into a community where Jewish religious ritual and folklore flourished, even though some anti- Jewish feeling is evident , largely elsewhere, in the country.And of course the proverbial stormclouds gather, and they just hope and pray for the best. Obviously with hindsight ,the naivety and refusal to see the danger that so many displayed becomes painful to read. Without spoiling the plot, the family end up hiding in the forest in a bid to avoid being permanently confined in a ghetto then being deported. Reminds me of the film ‘Defiance’ . Faced with the threat of capture by the Germans, Polish informants, partisans who were not sympathetic to the Jews, the family survive. Beautifully written, parts of the tale remind me of late 20th century magical realism with historical notes interjected. I am trying to place where the novel it set…..seems to be in the further east of the section of Poland that the Germans took…..the Soviet Union took a large swathe of the east of country following the German invasion.The tone of the novel is very critical of the Polish antisemitism of the era and the prejudice that Jewish survivors faced when returning to their homes in Poland. Overall a fascinating read.
memerelap –
I enjoyed this life story through all of its turmoil, joy, sadness, disbelief and determination. Thanks to the author for letting the world experience some of the dark days, months and years of a sad time in humanity. Thank you.
Ann2shoes –
I wonder how anybody survived hiding in the forest in the cold, and having to move camp regularly to avoid detection. This is a good (true) story and well worth a read.
Christian H Gortz –
Did not capture my attention for very long