Escape

In his memoir, ESCAPE, Paul Gruszniewski recounts the horrors of the Second World War from a child's perspective.

Seven-year-old Paul's world is shattered when the Germans bombed his Polish town at the outset of WWII. He braced for what was ahead: • 2 years under Russian occupation • Being forced into a Jewish ghetto for over a year • Escaping through the barbed wire hours before the ghetto was liquidated and watching as 13,000 inmates were sent to Auschwitz • Months hiding in a potato shed in a field during winter • 2 years alone, wandering in German-occupied Poland, working on farms while hiding from the Nazis. Only thirteen when the war was over, it took Paul a lifetime to piece together the story of his family's suffering during those six brutal years, the Holocaust. This tale of a Jewish child's brave struggle with war and racism is one of horror and of hope.

In this memoir, Paul Gruszniewski recounts the horrors of the Second World War from a child's perspective. Originally from Poland, Paul moved to the U.S. in 1960, and worked as an engineer for Boeing. He currently lives in the Seattle area.