Many Jews fleeing Nazi rule spent years hiding in forests. A new book tells their stories - PBS News

During the early Nazi occupation of Europe, they forced more than a million Jews to live and work in ghettos. Most were killed in a brutal process called liquidation, or sent to concentration camps. Some 25,000 Jews escaped the ghettos and hid in Eastern European forests. The members of one family that survived years in the woods tell their story in Rebecca Frankel's new book, “Into the Forest.”

Judy Woodruff:

In the 1930s, when the Nazis began their occupation of Europe, they set up ghettos for more than one million Jews, forcing them to live and work in fenced-off communities. Once the Nazis arrived at the Final Solution, the mass murder of Jews, most ghetto residents were killed.

Some 25,000 of them, though, escaped the ghettos to hide in the woods, but few survived. The members of one family who spent years in the forest are now telling their story.

Author Rebecca Frankel writes about them in her new book, "Into the Forest."

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/many-jews-fleeing-nazi-rule-spent-years-hiding-in-forests-a-new-book-tells-their-stories