Escape from the Holocaust

When Uri Shulevitz was five years old, his family fled from Warsaw to the USSR, escaping from the Nazis. Like other refugees from Poland, they were exiled by the Soviet government to log in the Arkhangelsk region - the authorities saw them as a threat and potential spies, then they were allowed to go to Kazakhstan, where as a child Uri spent two and a half years. After the war, the family set out for home, but the Poles were hostile towards the Jews. The family's wanderings passed through Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany, France, Israel, and finally the USA. Uri Shulevitz wrote a memoir about his childhood. About the exhausting hunger and the support of strangers, about bombs and the passion for painting, about luck and persistence, about childhood games and wandering in freight cars. About the fact that childhood remains childhood. About the fact that a parent's love is not measured by candies and toys. And that calling and talent will break through the hardships.