Orlev, Uri. Run, boy, run.Trans, by Hillel Halkin. Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational publisher in the United States. The company's headquarters is located in Boston's Back Bay. It publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers . c2003. 192p. 0-618-16465-0. $15.00. J Srulik, an eight-year-old Jewish boy, manages to escape the Warsaw Ghetto The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of the Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany in the General Government during the Holocaust in World War II. Between 1940 and 1943, starvation, disease and deportations to concentration camps and extermination camps dropped the and spends the next few years struggling to survive in the Polish countryside, which is occupied by the Nazis. He sees his father killed, learns to be a thief from a group of boys, is taught to pass as a Christian, works for farm families both kind and cruel, and endures near-starvation in the forest. Anti-Semitism is rampant; when his arm is mangled in an accident, a doctor refuses to attend to him, and the arm must be amputated when gangrene gangrene, local death of body tissue. Dry gangrene, the most common form, follows a disturbance of the blood supply to the tissues, e.g., in diabetes, arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, or destruction of tissue by injury. develops. Ever resourceful re·source·ful adj. Able to act effectively or imaginatively, especially in difficult situations. re·source  ful·ly adv. , the boy survives the loss and learns to cope with his disability. The often-horrifying episodes in Srulik's desperate existence are related in short, matter-of-fact sentences, heightening both the awfulness and the grim reality of his experiences for the reader. Orlev, a Holocaust survivor and author of The Island on Bird Street and other novels for young readers about the Holocaust, based this novel on the incredible but true childhood experiences of a fellow survivor, as he explains in an epilogue ep·i·logue also ep·i·log n. 1. a. A short poem or speech spoken directly to the audience following the conclusion of a play. b. The performer who delivers such a short poem or speech. 2. . The novel has obvious relevance for studies of the Holocaust, for readers not quite ready for Elie Wiesel's Night, or for those who want to know what it was like for Jews who managed to avoid the concentration camps. |
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