Avoiding the Cracks: A personal odyssey and a story of survival. 1939 to 1949

by Rudy Horowitz

The story covers the most eventful decade of the author's life, 1939-1949. It is told in a collection of contemporaneous “letters forward” to his two small (future) grandchildren. During that time the author grew from childhood to adulthood, survived the Holocaust, traveled and lived in six different countries, and experienced Nazism, Communism and Zionism. On the last day of October 1949 after crossing the Atlantic from Sweden, his dream came true when he stepped ashore at Pier 99, in Manhattan.

180 pages, Paperback

First published February 22, 2014

Reviews

[Quinn da Matta · Rating 3 out of 5]

The author cleverly uses a letter-writing format and style to tell this arduous and painful story of surviving the War — and losing everything — to his dangerous adventure to build a new home — and life — in America.

This style and format makes the book more intimate and the story more personal.