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  • The Boy from the Forest

  • The True Holocaust Survival Story of Resistance and Revenge
  • By: Dr. Shay Efrat
  • Narrated by: Adriel Brandt
  • Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
  • 2.7 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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The Boy from the Forest

By: Dr. Shay Efrat
Narrated by: Adriel Brandt
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Publisher's summary

June, 1941. Eleven-year-old Shmuel Sucha is startled awake by the sound of German planes over his hometown in western Ukraine. As the Nazi shadow begins to fall on their small Jewish community, Shmuel’s parents smuggle their son away to a local farm, just on the border of the surrounding forest.

While the Nazi systematic annihilation of Jews begins to spread, Shmuel escapes into the nearby forest. With nothing but birch trees and death to surround him, Shmuel begs, cheats, and steals in order to survive. For the span of two long years, Shmuel witnesses the kindness of Jewish and gentile strangers, the hostility of the local villagers experiences the cruelty of the Nazi soldiers, and shares his fellow survivors’ uncanny will to live another day.

The Boy From The Forest is the riveting account of Shmuel Sucha’s story of survival in the desolate Ukrainian forests. A story of betrayal and revenge, despair, and ultimately–hope.

©2022 Dr. Shay Efrat (P)2023 Dr. Shay Efrat

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Repeated things over and over.

I am always very interested in the holocaust, and I’ve read a lot of books, both fiction and nonfiction on the subject. This was the poorest written book that I have read. It was as though the author had written it without an outline or notes or anything, because he just kept saying the same things over and over again.

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