Prologue 1. AVRUM I am Avrum My Beginnings Our Village Shabbos Dinner Young Avrum Protecting Lena The Next Day The Train Ride 2. LENA The Kwalskis Hiding Germans Mother Superior The Convent Irena’s Secret The Gestapo After the German Visit Anna Anna’s Story Lena’s Thoughts To the Forest The Partisans The Partisan Camp 3. MOLLIE Mollie On the Farm Meeting the Partisans 4. AVRUM Day after Day The Kapo We are the Jews The Tailor Talking with the Colonel The Colonel 5. LENA Chaya’s Story The Escape Staying Alive Farmer JanuszThe Jewish PartisansBack in CampThe TrainAfter the Sabotage6. AVRUM To Camp Returning to Camp Itzhak Discussion with Itzhak Mendel The War Wears On 7. LENA The Twerskis The Other Partisans Planning The Raid The Raid After the Raid In the Forest We Need Supplies The Air-Drop Plan in Action The War Ends 8. AVRUM Liberation The Day After Returning Home The MissionLooking for Lena Returning from Leszno Recuperating 9. MOLLIE The Warning The Russians Arrive Having to Leave Traveling with the Palestinians 10. LENA We Move On Making Plans Before the Journey The Journey The Service Crossing the Border To Bergen-Belsen Arriving at Bergen-Belsen Preparing for Our Next Life 11. MOLLIE Feldafing12. AVRUM Finding a Friend Mollie and Me Looking for Mollie Getting Married Yankel Leaves To America The Voyage America Being Americans We Settle In 13. COMING TOGETHER To Palestine The Ship Sailing to the Promised Land The Promised Land 14. FINALITY Understanding the SituationCanada Mandate EndsMohamed Ali Hadad Yad Mordechai15. NEW WORLD, NEW LIFECleveland, 1962 Events in Cleveland Josh’s Bar Mitzvah Teaching Class Our Son, Solly 16. AVRUM AND JACOBAt the ParkEpilogueAcknowledgments About the Authors Amsterdam Publishers Holocaust LibraryTwo Polish Jewish siblings during WW2, their struggles to survive and resist their oppressors. It delves into Polish history, the Israeli War of Independence.The Precious Few is based on a thousand true stories and documents the love and dedication of a young brother and sister, Polish Jews, during the tumultuous start of World War II. We follow them as they struggle to stay alive, and retaliate against their oppressors.Many of the stories and events portrayed in the book will be startlingly new, even to Word War II buffs. The book reveals a different side of the stereotypical view of the Polish people and the Nazis occupiers, swiftly moving through the Polish history of World War II and to the Israeli War of Independence and beyond. The subplots and the chance meetings and interactions of the central characters create a flow of life rich in spirit and driven by determination. Remnants of families lost to concentration camp horrors spawn a new era of a Jewish culture—a mindset to fight back against the oppression and victimization of any people.The Precious Few is based on a thousand true stories and documents the love and dedication of a young brother and sister, Polish Jews, during the tumultuous start of World War II. We follow them as they struggle to stay alive, and retaliate against their oppressors.Many of the stories and events portrayed in the book will be startlingly new, even to Word War II buffs. The book reveals a different side of the stereotypical view of the Polish people and the Nazis occupiers, swiftly moving through the Polish history of World War II and to the Israeli War of Independence and beyond. The subplots and the chance meetings and interactions of the central characters create a flow of life rich in spirit and driven by determination. Remnants of families lost to concentration camp horrors spawn a new era of a Jewish culture—a mindset to fight back against the oppression and victimization of any people.