~ Winner of the International Impact Book Awards 2021 in the category Life Experiences
A young Jewish boy and his siblings fleeing a world destroyed by hate. A notoriously cruel antisemite hunting for Jews. Why did this murderer risk his own life to save these children?
An 11-year-old boy and his siblings fight for survival after the evil of the Nazi regime descends upon Poland. Time after time, they miraculously escape certain death as the murderous fascists attempt to make their hometown of Tluste Judenrein. Their luck seems to have run out when the Germans order to liquidate their work camp.
Unexpected help comes from Timush, a man known for his terrible deeds against the Jews. After hearing their mother shout to him in a desperate plea, “Save my children!” as she is marched to her execution, Timush amazingly risks his own life to make sure they survive.
Save my Children is the true story of the transformation of a man once filled with hate and violence who made the ultimate sacrifice to save the people he once sought to kill.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. My Birthplace - A History of Hatred
2. A Wonderful Childhood
3. Dark Clouds of War
4. The Soviets take All
5. The Real Terror begins
6. The Germans come to Tluste for the First Time
7. A Feared Anti-Semite Returns to Tluste
8. Near Death for Edek
9. Give up your Furs or Die
10. Tusia’s Close Call with an SS Officer
11. Time to Hide
12. Finding Food
13. My Friend risks his Life for me
14. Tusia becomes a Gentile
15. Typhus
16. To the Work Camps
17. Tluste becomes a Bloodbath
18. The Push for Judenrein
19. Into the Bunker
20. Killing Time
21. Fryma is Found
22. Settling in for the long Winter
23. Timush's Life and Death Decision
24. Life without Timush
25. “The Russians have arrived!”
26. Out of the Bunker
27. The Germans return
28. Delirious with Fever
29. The Nazis finally pushed back
30. Timush and Hania’s Fate
31. The Search for a New Home
32. How to Survive in Krakow
33. A Circuitous Route to Prague
34. Another Brush with Death
35. The Slow Train to Budapest
36. Finally, Prague!
37. From the East to the West
38. Life as a Displaced Person
39. Facing Death one last Time
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Photos
About the Authors
