A Jump for Life

By Ruth Altbeker Cyprys

Subjects: Ethnic relations, Biography, Europe, ethnic relations, Large type books, Holocaust survivors, World War, 1939-1945, Jewish women, Polish Personal narratives, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives, Personal narratives, Polish, Jews, poland, Jews, Personal narratives

Description: The journal of a young Jewish woman struggling to survive the German invasion of Poland. Taken from the Ghetto in 1943, Ruth Altbeker Cyprys saved her own life, and that of her daughter, by jumping from a moving train bound for Treblinka.