Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance

• By: Jack Sutin
• Format: paperback, 225 pages
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
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• ISBN: 1555972438

Jack and Rochelle Sutin take turns narrating their harrowing story of the Holocaust.

The couple first met briefly at a school dance in Stolpce, Poland, and then again in the winter of 1942^-43 in a woods after making separate escapes from Nazi ghetto labor camps. In the woods they joined a Jewish partisan group, lived in inhuman conditions, and fell in love. German troops, Polish police, and Russian partisans--who hated the Jews--all made their survival arduous. In the summer of 1943, they joined a much larger partisan group (about 300 fellow Jews), and that August the Germans sent 20,000 troops into the forest to put down the resistance. Jack and Rochelle escaped into the swamps and were eventually liberated by Russian forces.