Habry

by Helen Degen Cohen

Helen Degen Cohen was born Halina Degenfisz in a town near Warsaw. When the Germans invaded, the family fled to Lida, White Russia, but were incarcerated in the Lida Ghetto by the advancing Germans. Because the Ghetto population was shrinking due to the Selections, Helen's father found a way of getting the family to live in semi-hiding in the prison where he worked. When finally all remaining Jews in Lida were exported, and the family stood at the train station waiting to board, her mother gave Helen a cup and told her to pretend to be going for water at a pump, and to keep on walking ? until she found the house of the prison cook. The cook found a devout Catholic, who hid Helen in a cabin in the farm country. Meanwhile, Helen's parents were forced onto the train but escaped and joined the Resistance. They found Helen after the war. These poems describe her experiences both in Europe and as an immigrant in the US.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0981975607
• ISBN13: 9780981975603
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: The Puddin'head Press
• Length: 83 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.3" x 8.5"