Kliatt, November 1st, 2007
ORLEV, Uri. Run, boy, run. Trans. by Hillel Halkin. Houghton Mifflin. 186p. c2003. 978-0-618-95706-4. $6.95. J
To quote the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, November 2003: Srulik, an eight-year-old Jewish boy, manages to escape the Warsaw Ghetto and spends the next few years struggling to survive in the Polish countryside, which is occupied by the Nazis. He sees his father killed, learns to be a thief from a group of boys, is taught to pass as a Christian, works for farm families both kind and cruel, and endures near-starvation in the forest. Anti-Semitism is rampant; when his arm is mang...
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