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Book SynopsisBoy with a Violin recounts the compelling story of child violin prodigy Yochanan Fein—from his miraculous survival in the Kaunas Ghetto through his daring escape from Soviet Lithuania to Poland, before immigrating to Israeli in 1950.
Trade ReviewSuch 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.
* Het Parool Newspaper *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Part I
Prologue
1. Who Was This Man?
2. A Jewish Boy and His Parents
3. The Goal—Saving the Intellectuals
4. The Violin of My Life
5. The Story—Back to the Beginning
6. The Great Action and the Looting of Those Who Remained
7. The Separation from My Parents
8. At My Relatives' House
9. General Winte
10. Activities
11. The "Malina"
12. The Girl, Ghetta'leh
13. The Murder of Children
14. My Escape from the Ghetto
15. In the Attic and the "Tomato Patch"
16. In the Depths of the Pit
17. Farewell from a Distance
18. The Russian Captive and Rubin, the Jew
19. About Anna, Oscar and Otto
20. The Sixteen Survivors
21. About Hideouts and People
22. The Paulavičius'
Part II
23. There Is No Law and There Is No Judge
24. Gražina
25. The Return Home
26. The Joy of Youth
27. Moscow
28. A Brief Return Home
Part III
29. Goodbye Lithuania
30. Strangers in Poland
31. At the Children's Home
32. My Students—My Friends
33. The Court
34. Solitude
35. Goodbye Poland
36. Me and My Past
Epilogue
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