A long journey Book

What an amazing woman! Ruth was a Polish Jew in Warsaw, pregnant with her first child as her husband left to fight in 1939. She (and her baby) survive the Warsaw ghetto and the war due to her courage and intelligence, with the help of many miracles and compassionate people. On the train to a concentration camp, Ruth jumps out of the little window, followed by her toddler. After the war, Ruth wrote this record of her experiences and it was found in a drawer by her daughter, 50 years later. This is an incredible story.

Some of her insights:

"This march of hopeless, resigned, wandering Jews was terrible to behold. With bundles, rucksacks, bent down and ill-treated, they were leaving our little alley, now so precious to everybody. One can get accustomed to everything and even come to regard it with affection." (p. 66)

"That poor railway guard with two children of his own yet still willing to give shelter to a strange Jewish cild? It was all incomprehensible, almost a miracle. I realized then that Good and Evil were to be found side by side in this world, or even striding together in equal measure in one person." (p. 105)

"Involuntarily, or perhaps by inveterate instinct, I turned again to God. How arbitrary was the dispensation of Providence. Why had only I been saved and the others doomed? I was no better or worse than the others, yet I was alive and they were to die in torture." (p. 105)