On the night the SS rounded up the Jews of his Ukrainian ghetto, eighteen-year-old Yosel Epelbaum crawled on his hands and knees to a nearby forest. There he joined a diverse band of pro-Soviet partisans, led by a kind of warlord in the wilderness, who created a forest republic behind Nazi lines. With his courageous comrades, Epelbaum, disrupted the German war effort for almost a year and a half and saved hundreds of civilians at the same time. After the liberation the young survivor became caught up in Europe s robust black market. With little money or formal education, and knowing no English, he immigrated to San Francisco in 1947 and within a year opened an ice cream shop. Only a decade later Joe Pell was well on his way to becoming one of the leading real estate developers in Northern California. Taking risks, related in a taut and vivid style, is his story- one of loss and torment but also daring, ingenuity and uncommon resilience.

Taking Risks: A Jewish Youth in the Soviet Partisans and His Unlikely Life in California

History

Joseph Pell

World

Wicker Park Press, Ltd.

<p>In this 2nd Edition Book, Pell recounts his early life in Poland, the invasion of the Nazis, his family's flight to the Soviet Union, and his eventual emigration to the United States after the war. A large section of his biography details the activities of the partisan resistance group, who attacked the Nazis from their hideout in an Eastern European forest.</p>

Taking Risks: A Jewish Youth in the Soviet Partisans and His Unlikely Life in California (2nd Edition)

Arts & Photography

Fred Rosenbaum

Music

RDR Books and Lehrhaus Judaica; 2nd Edition (January 2018)

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