Download or read book Joseph Gavi, Young Hero of the Minsk Ghetto written by Carlton Jackson and published by Turner. This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the shocking but true story of Joseph Gavi, a small Jewish boy growing up in Minsk, Byelorussia during the German invasion of WWII. Relive unspeakable horrors surrounding him as he at first struggles to simply survive and then to overcome his brutal oppressors through covert action with the "Freedom Fighters" as he rescues more than 200 of his people from the imprisoning ghetto while constantly evading immediate death by execution. Read with spellbinding detail of each harrowing escape, at times only inches from being discovered and tortuous death. Experience the war time betrayal of "loyal" friends and later that of comrades as his postwar successes in the Soviet Union are thwarted as well by his old enemy, anti-Semitism. Finally, follow this highly decorated veteran, mountain climbing instructor and scientist as he resolves to pierce the Iron Curtain and flee to America only to face the endless frustrations of a repressive bureaucratic battle ground toward his eventual entrepreneurial success through citizenship in the USA. Book jacket.