cover image The House of Ashes

The House of Ashes

Oscar Pinkus. Spring Rain Press, $9.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-912712-24-6

Pinkus, a poet and novelist, grew up in the small Polish town of Losice. In this first of two memoirs, he describes how, during World War II, he and members of his family escaped from the burning ghettos and their harrowing experiences of survival in the forests of Nazi-occupied Poland. Photos. (Feb.)