A POLISH BOY: The Youngest Partisan
"I stop breathing when a soldier comes in. I can see his shiny boots from my hiding place under the bunk. I know he isn’t nice and wants to kill kids. I hold my breath until the soldier goes away. Then I hear the machine guns."
This book is a fresh perspective of World War II and its casualties through the eyes of a spirited, precocious child. Chiel loves feeling like a hero and enjoys the adventure without thinking about the danger.
He is instrumental in helping his family escape from a Nazi concentration camp and then again, over the border from East Berlin to the Western sector.
After Chiel arrives in America at age 11, he struggles with survivor guilt. As he matures into an adult inside the man, beats the heart of a boy, who, against all odds, fought against the Nazi’s and won his own freedom.
Publisher: Story Publications
Hardback / Paperback / 132 pages
About the Author
B F Jochnowitz born and educated in Boston, Massachusetts, has always been passionate about writing. She and her husband owned and operated a publishing firm in Marblehead, Massachusetts—specializing in editing and typesetting college textbooks. A POLISH BOY: The Youngest Partisan is a tribute to the life of her late husband.
Then and Always: Reflections on my Family
"This is my family's legacy—and now, yours to carry forward."
From a small village in Poland to the shores of America, the Yanson-Rubin family carried with them something no war could take: the will to build a life worth living. Then and Always spans generations, tracing one family's journey through immigration, two world wars, devastating loss, and the quiet, stubborn persistence of love.
Part memoir, part family portrait, this is the story of ordinary people who faced extraordinary circumstances with courage, humor, and grace. And of the daughter who made sure their lives would not be forgotten.
Publisher: Story Publications
Paperback / Kindle eBook / 74 pages
About the Author
B F Jochnowitz born and educated in Boston, Massachusetts, has always been passionate about writing. She and her husband owned and operated a publishing firm in Marblehead, Massachusetts—specializing in editing and typesetting college textbooks. Then and Always: Reflections on My Family traces her own family's journey across generations, immigration, and two world wars.