Flight: A Jewish Family's Valiant Struggle to Escape Nazi Occupation

While the Nazi Blitzkrieg rained terror and destruction upon defenseless citizens in Western Europe, hundreds of thousands of people scrambled desperately for safety. Roads were clogged with terrified refugees trying and failing to keep ahead of German fighter planes screaming down at them with machine guns blazing. Among the hapless refugees was a Jewish family, three generations crowded together in a big car with little hope " and even that hope ebbing fast. Finally they got to the coast just in time for most of them to squeeze onto one of the last boats leaving the continent for England. That left Father and Brudi stranded under the Nazi gun, with E nothing to sustain them but their faith in G-d and their quick wits and boundless courage. Arid they needed all three. Wherever they wandered, their lives hung in the balance: in Nazi-occupied France, in Vichy France, in detention camps, at border crossings, in trains under Nazi noses. Time after time their prayers were answered and avenues of escape appeared from nowhere " until finally they found refuge and were reunited with their family. Renee Worch was part of that family, and she recounts their experiences as seen through the eyes of a teenager. She leavens her true story with background tales as she and Brudi imagined them to have happened. In an epoch when truth was stranger than fiction, the parts blend together seamlessly in this riveting memoir. This book was undertaken by the author so that her children and grandchildren would know and remember the events of yesteryear. The public is fortunate that it has been invited to join the Worch family in reading this stirring and inspiring story.