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Beyond Trochenbrod: The Betty Gold Story

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Few are conversant in one of the crucial Holocaust’s most monstrous acts, the systematic murder of 5,000 Jewish residents in a Nazi-occupied Polish town, Trochenbrod, on August 11, 1942. Of the 33 who escaped death, only one person remains to describe these events―Betty Gold. Twelve-year-old Betty and her circle of relatives hid inside a secret wall built by her father and, when it seemed secure, crept toward the forest, which became their home.

In part one of Beyond Trochenbrod, Gold provides a brief history of Trochenbrod, the only all-Jewish town to exist outdoor of biblical Israel, and describes a series of cherished childhood experiences before the arrival of Soviet and, later, Nazi occupiers. Part two centers on the circle of relatives’s struggles against hunger, pain, despair, and the constant fear of being discovered at the same time as living in the forest. How the circle of relatives survived against these and other threats is little short of miraculous. Their unlikely rescue, stay at a displaced persons camp, and journey to The united states are the subjects of part three. In the fourth and final a part of her memoir, Gold recounts her difficult adjustment to her new home in Cleveland and discusses how her Trochenbrod experiences have transformed her life and the lives of others.

Man’s inhumanity is undeniable in Beyond Trochenbrod, but so is humanity’s capacity to prevail in spite of inconceivable odds.


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