{"product_id":"boy-with-a-violin-a-story-of-survival-hardback-9780253060563","title":"Boy with a Violin; A Story of Survival (Hardback) 9780253060563","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBoy with a Violin\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Story of Survival\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eYochanan Fein (Author), Penina Reichenberg (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253060563\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 May 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e334 pages, 26 b\u0026amp;w illus. - 26 Illustrations, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.662 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuch stories have been told before: A Jewish boy a violin, the pounding of boots, death and grief. Yet this book overwhelmed me. I was swept away, so much so that as I read this book on the train, I was so immersed that I missed my destination.\u003c\/p\u003e (Het Parool Newspaper) \u003cp\u003eEvery Holocaust survivor has a miraculous story to tell full of serendipitous details that, in the end, made all the difference as regards their survival. Yochanan Fein, the author of\u003ci\u003e Boy with a Violin: A Story of Survival\u003c\/i\u003e, owes his survival to the fact that he played the violin... and the good-hearted nature of a Lithuanian, Jonas Paulavičius, who viewed the Nazis as the enemy and determinedly decided to fight them by saving those they persecuted.\u003c\/p\u003e - Dr. Diane Cypkin (Martyrdom and Resistance)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn June 22, 1941, the German invasion of the Soviet Union began. In a matter of days, the war reached the suburbs of Kaunas, Lithuania, where a young Jewish violinist, Yochanan Fein, led a happy childhood. On June 22, 1941, that childhood ended.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBoy with a Violin\u003c\/i\u003e, Fein recounts his early life under Nazi occupation—his survival in the Kaunas Ghetto, the separation from his parents, his narrow escapes from death at the hands of Nazi officers, the harrowing stories of those he knew who did not survive, and the abhorrent conditions he endured while in hiding. He tells the tale of his rescuer, Jonas Paulavičius, the Lithuanian carpenter who sought to save the Jewish spirit. Paulavičius rescued those he believed could rebuild in the wake of the Holocaust, hiding engineers and doctors in his underground Noah's Ark. Among the sixteen he saved stood one fourteen-year-old violinist.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFollowing liberation, Fein describes the aftermath of the war as survivors returned to what was left of their homes and attempted to piece together the fragmented remains of their lives. He recounts the difficulties of returning to some semblance of normal life in the midst of a complex political climate, culminating in his daring escape from Soviet Lithuania.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn one of the darkest eras of human history, there were those who proved that the goodness of the human spirit survives against all odds. \u003ci\u003eBoy with a Violin\u003c\/i\u003e pays tribute to those who risked everything to save a life, and whose altruism crossed the boundaries of race and religion. In this first English translation of \u003ci\u003eBoy with a Violin\u003c\/i\u003e, Fein continues to offer his testimony to the strength of the human spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ePrologue\u003cbr\u003e1. Who Was This Man?\u003cbr\u003e2. A Jewish Boy and His Parents\u003cbr\u003e3. The Goal—Saving the Intellectuals\u003cbr\u003e4. The Violin of My Life\u003cbr\u003e5. The Story—Back to the Beginning\u003cbr\u003e6. The Great Action and the Looting of Those Who Remained\u003cbr\u003e7. The Separation from My Parents\u003cbr\u003e8. At My Relatives' House\u003cbr\u003e9. General Winte\u003cbr\u003e10. Activities\u003cbr\u003e11. The \"Malina\"\u003cbr\u003e12. The Girl, Ghetta'leh\u003cbr\u003e13. The Murder of Children\u003cbr\u003e14. My Escape from the Ghetto\u003cbr\u003e15. In the Attic and the \"Tomato Patch\"\u003cbr\u003e16. In the Depths of the Pit\u003cbr\u003e17. Farewell from a Distance\u003cbr\u003e18. The Russian Captive and Rubin, the Jew\u003cbr\u003e19. About Anna, Oscar and Otto\u003cbr\u003e20. The Sixteen Survivors\u003cbr\u003e21. About Hideouts and People\u003cbr\u003e22. The Paulavičius'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e23. There Is No Law and There Is No Judge\u003cbr\u003e24. Gražina\u003cbr\u003e25. The Return Home\u003cbr\u003e26. The Joy of Youth\u003cbr\u003e27. Moscow\u003cbr\u003e28. A Brief Return Home\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e29. Goodbye Lithuania\u003cbr\u003e30. Strangers in Poland\u003cbr\u003e31. At the Children's Home\u003cbr\u003e32. My Students—My Friends\u003cbr\u003e33. The Court\u003cbr\u003e34. Solitude\u003cbr\u003e35. Goodbye Poland\u003cbr\u003e36. Me and My Past\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525363855640,"sku":"9780253060563","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/boy-with-a-violin-a-story-of-survival-hardback-9780253060563","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}