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For Three Lines
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781956381979
Publisher: Mazo Publishers
Published: Mar 3 2025
Pages: 314
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
An inspiring story of hope and courage.
Unwilling to go like sheep to the slaughter, his Jewish youth group desperately fought the Nazis for three lines in history. - Aharon Liebeskind (1912-1942)
Jeff Lefkowitz has written a compelling and moving novel depicting the struggles of young Zionist resistance fighters during the Holocaust. Based on a composite of Jewish historical characters, he captures an inner truth often more easily accessible in fiction... It is a work of power and passion that brings to life the world of these young people who understood that while they would not prevail in a military struggle..., their acts of resistance were morally compelling and spiritually significant, the very stuff that would shape historical memory.
ANNA - smart, insecure and funny - is an ordinary girl leading an ordinary life. She meets a guy without looking. If this were a different story, they may have lived happily ever after.
But this is 1939 Poland, home to more Jewish people than anywhere except America when World War II brings German abuse, ghettos, disease, deception. Anna and her friends try to find humor and love amidst the despair. Then thousands of ordinary people are sent daily to factories; not to work, but to be exterminated.
Marked for death, locked in ghettos with no weapons, what could the kids do? Polish Christians, also deemed subhuman but not targeted for extermination, include saints and devils. Risk of betrayal at any turn.
THE REAL PEOPLE upon whom Anna and her friends are based made gut-wrenching decisions for three lines in history. They wanted so badly to be remembered; this book is a monument to their lives.
A gripping and inspiring novel, For Three Lines is a masterful story, based on real events, about teens' resilience, love and courage in the face of unbearable tragedy. It brings to life the Holocaust's gray complexities and the huge role Jewish youth groups played in Jewish resistance.
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