The Shoemaker's Son. The Life of a Holocaust Resister

When the Soviet Union invaded Eastern Poland in September 1939, David Bakst and Paula Silberfarb thought that their lives could not get any worse. Their fathers’ businesses were shuttered, their families were impoverished overnight, and their tight-knit Jewish communities were disbanded.

Then, the Nazis arrived.

From crowded ghettos and frigid forests to the battlefields on the Eastern Front, The Shoemaker’s Son tells the true story of two families’ fights for survival, their struggles to rebuild in the aftermath, and the lives that they saved in the process.