Book description
Halina Rudowski is on the run. When the Polish ghetto where she lives
is evacuated, she narrowly escapes, but her mother is not as lucky.
Along with her friend Batya, Halina makes her way to a secret encampment
in the woods where Jews survive by living underground. As the group
struggles for food, handles infighting, and attempts to protect
themselves from the advancing Germans, Halina must face the reality of
life without her mother.
Based on historical events, this gripping tale sheds light on a
little-known aspect of the Holocaust: the underground forest
encampments that saved several thousand Jews from the Nazis. In
telling the story of one girl's survival, Escaping into the
Night marks the arrival of a remarkable new voice in fiction.
D. Dina Friedman teaches writing at the University
of Massachusetts. She has published a number of short stories, poems,
articles,and plays in literary journals, and has been twice nominated
for the Pushcart Prize. This is her first bookfor a younger audience.
Ms. Friedman lives in Hadley, Massachusetts.
