REVIEW: Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love by Rebecca Frankel

A gripping story of love, escape, and survival, from wartime Poland to a courtship in the Catskills

In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods—through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi raids—until they were liberated by the Red Army in 1944. After the war they trekked across the Alps into Italy where they settled as refugee...