21 Oct 2011
To the Editor:
I have just published a book with the title: From Hell to the Promised Land A Boy’s Daring Escape from a Nazi Concentration Camp
It is a spellbinding story of a 10-year old Jewish boy when the Nazis march into Poland in 1939. He documents events in his town and sorrounding ghettos with vivid descriptions. He winds up with his father in 2 concentration camps and makes a daring escape during the "Death March" of January 1945 to his mother who works in a Catholic convent on Aryan papers. He survives the war and joins a Zionist movement in an attempt to reach the Promised Land. After two years of adventurous travels throughout post war Europe, he is on a boat called Lanegev on his way to Palestine. The boat is intercepted on the shores of Haifa and he is deported along with 750 other young Zionists to Cyprus where he is sworn into the Hagana. On his 18-th birthday he enters Palestine and with his entire group joins kibbutz Negba. Here he is immediately caught in the Israeli War of Independence of 1948 where he participates in heroic battles on the Egyptian front. In the aftermath of the war he joins his mother who immigrated to the USA.
I would greatly appreciate if you could give me the name of your book review editor with an address so that I could send him a copy of the book to be reviewed. The book is now available on Amazon.
Thanking you very much for your cooperation.
Sam Silberberg