Dear Safranim, due to technical difficulties the full news release about my
book was posted in bits and pieces on our list. I hope that this time it
will work. I would appreciate to hear from some of you who receive this
full and complete e-mail - just to confirm that it worked this time.
This book Titled "To Live and Fight Another Day; The Story of a Jewish
Partisan Boy" is geared towards young adult readers. Its main educational
goal is to highlight a facet of the Holocaust that is not often focused on
when teaching this subject to children. Two chapters of this book are
already included in the State of New Jersey Holocaust Curriculum.
What distinguishes this book is two fold:
1. It presents the Jews not just as victim by telling the story of Jewish
Partisans who fought back and avenged the deaths of their families
massacred in the killing fields of the Ukrainian shtetls.
2. It presents this factual information in a fictional form from the
perspective of a young Jewish boy, who took part in fighting the Nazis.
Chag Sameach to you all,
Bracha Weisbarth
Director of Library services
Waldor Memorial Library of the JEA
Tel:973 929-2973
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
To Live And Fight Another Day
The Story Of A Jewish Partisan Boy
By: Bracha Weisbarth
Partisan - par'ti-zan, n. a member of a body of detached light troops
making forays and harassing an enemy
To Live and Fight Another Day is the story of a 13-year-old Jewish boy who
joins a partisan unit fighting the Nazis in the forests of the Ukraine
during World War II.
A historical novel, To Live And Fight Another Day is modeled on
the true survival story of the author's family. The author's brother serves
as the model for Benny, the hero and narrator of this story.
Benny assumes his responsibilities doing a man's job, gathering
information for the partisans and ultimately fighting in their battles.
Despite extreme hardships, Benny is blessed with a wry
perspective, which helps him to find a bit of humor in each of his
dangerous adventures. He is uncommonly bright. His quick thinking gets him
out of life-threatening trouble time after time. He even saves the lives of
his mother and two sisters.
While this is Benny's story, it is also the story of his parents
and the Jewish partisans who survived, to live and fight another day.
Bracha Weisbarth was born in the Ukraine. When she was a young
girl, the German army entered and occupied the region where her family
lived. To survive, her family escaped to the forest and established a small
partisan unit to fight the Nazi enemy.
"When the German army occupied our shtetl (small village), and all the
adult men were taken to labor camps, my brother indeed became the man of
the family. He foraged for food while we were in the ghetto, and saved our
lives by forcing us to flee the ghetto on the eve of the mass murder of all
its Jews," said the author.
"This is my goal for the book, to highlight the courage of the
partisans and keep their story alive so that people will be aware of this
aspect of Holocaust history."
Published by Mazo Publishers, Jerusalem
ISBN: 965-90462-3-5 $12.95 Soft Cover 160 pages
Pub Date: November 2003
Distributed in the United States by:
Jeffrey Mazo, 2738 Treemont Street, Suite #2, Jacksonville, Florida 32207
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