Chance
Texas Boudreau Brotherhood Book 8

I have long been a fan of Uri Shulvevitz's stunning picture books, and the opportunity to read his own story made me love him even more. This autobiography is Uri's recollections of growing up in WWII Poland and his family's immigration to various other countries to avoid imprisonment or worse by Na......more

Richie’s Picks: CHANCE: ESCAPE FROM THE HOLOCAUST by Uri Shulevitz, Farrar, Straus Giroux, October 2020, 336p., ISBN: 978-0-374-31371-5 “Now we see everything that’s going wrong With the world and those who lead it We just feel like we don’t have the means To rise above and beat it So we keep waiting Wait......more

In an illustrated memoir, Shulevitz tells the remarkable, harrowing story of his childhood from age four to fourteen during which his family endured years of near-starvation, brutal labor camps, and terrible illnesses as they fled east from Poland to escape the Nazi invasion, trekking from Belarus t......more

The cover and illustrations should not deceive you. The audience for this book is a more mature reader as some scenes described may be traumatic for a younger person. But overall an interesting account of escaping Nazi occupied Poland and surviving in the far depths of Turkestan and with a hostile w......more