The Escape Into Darkness

by Sonia Games

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0944007767
• ISBN13: 9780944007761
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: S.P.I. Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Age Range: 15 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 10 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

best WWII survivor story I have ever read!

I read this book (and reviewed it for a magazine) in 1991. I was astounded by this true story. A very young girl (I think she was 10)is taken out of the Warsaw Ghetto by an SS Officer who sees her playing on the street and takes pity on her. Homeless, she has to fend for herself. As I recall, she manages to pass for a Catholic pole. It's incredibly lucky that she's a girl, because Jewish males can be easily identified due to the fact that they are circumcised and therefore cannot "pass" for that reason. Sonia (whose childhood name was Sofia) is an incredibly brave and resourceful girl who survives the war by working in a factory. She has a certain amount of luck, too, in the form of a few Nazis whp apparently figure out she's Jewish but allow themselves to be "deceived." I couldn't put this book down. I had such admiration for this young girl, and I wish she'd had a better editor and more publicity. I highly recommend this book for anyone, but especially young people unfamiliar with WWII and the Holocaust. Simply remarkable. I'm going to order a copy and re-read it this week.