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"Years ago Shlomo Adler heard the story of the miraculous rescue in Bolechow, Ukraine of the Jewish couple, Solomon and Malka Rainhartz, by a Ukranian girl. After the liberation, the Ukranian girl revealed her true identity as that of a Jewish girl born in the village of Synowodzko Nizne. The girl saved herself and the Jewish couple with courage, ingenuity and luck. ""Jump my child. Maybe, thanks to you, there will remain a trace and memory of our family."" These were the last words Donia heard from her father. She was 17 1/2 years old girl when she jumped into the unknown from the train that led her and her immediate family from Synowodzko Nizne, Ukraine to the extermination camp at Belzec. Shlomo Adler is a masterful storyteller who has taken it upon himself to reveal and memoralize the many stories of tradedy and also heroism of the Holocaust. The English lanuage version of his new book, Donia: Her bravery, Her Luck and Her Challenging Destiny is a must-read for those intersested in the Holocaust history, Jewish studies, human nature and psychology."

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Being an ardent reader of the Holocaust, I never to have stopped looking for our parents in WWII biographies, Yad Vashem photos and old documentaries. I have never in my life read a more detailed account of minute by minute hourly and daily happenings so many years ago without the benefit of an extremely detailed diary. No other writer with Shlomo's details and plain explanations comes to mind, but Charles Dickens, the journalist who reported what he witnessed that same day. Shlomo's horrors did not need a diary; they remain grossly engraved in his mind, bleeding to this day. Hugo Marom, Aeronautical Engineer and Ex-Test Pilot, Tel Aviv, Israel (Adler's) admirable forthrightness, the vigor and clarity of his mind, his deep emotionality and his immensely moving desire to make sense of the horrors that History visited upon him and his town make his narrative both unforgettable and profoundly important, at a time when the voices of so many survivors are being silenced forever. Daniel Mendelsohn, Author of The Lost Mr. Adler is a born storyteller with a vivid, colorful command of language. As the content of what he tells is not invented, but stark reality, experienced by himself and supported by excellent memory, it would be a great loss were he not to record what he saw and lived through. I was most pleased when I heard that he had indeed begun to write a book. The chapters he gave me to read fulfilled all my expectation. Not only does he record events that would otherwise be lost, but he does so in a detailed, precise and stylistically satisfying manner, with gentle humor and, above all, the mature wisdom that age and distance to his horrifying experiences have given him. Mr. Adler's writing is both readable and historically accurate and, as eyewitnesses become fewer, an indispensable document to coming generations. Anatol Regnier, Author, Munich, Germany Reading a book about the Holocaust is like reading about the sinking of the Titanic. You know the ending in advance, yet the tension of each individual story is heightened by the details of the life of the person with whom you are becoming involved as you read. A Jew Again by Shlomo Adler is the extraordinary story of an ordinary boy transformed by the events of his life into an extraordinary person. This book, translated into English from the original Hebrew, documents the life journey of Shlomo Adler from his pampered childhood in Poland, through the tragic and tumultuous years of the Second World War to his struggle with his Jewish identity to finally his immigration to Israel and to finding himself A Jew again. Every detail of his life is so personally drawn, so intimately shared that it makes really fascinating reading as an autobiography in addition to the horrific and unimaginable background of the Holocaust which towers over the human story unfolding in these pages. All the characters in the book are brought to life with real empathy and supported by the photographs, give the reader an insider view of the life and times of that era. It was an eye-opening experience to read the book and look at the elderly gentleman, my friend, and see before me a hero! Thank you, Shlomo, for that privilege. Norman Barron Kfar Saba, Israel

"""Being an ardent reader of the Holocaust, I never to have stopped looking for our parents in WWII biographies, Yad Vashem photos and old documentaries. I have never in my life read a more detailed account of minute by minute hourly and daily happenings so many years ago without the benefit of an extremely detailed diary. No other writer with Shlomo's details and plain explanations comes to mind, but Charles Dickens, the journalist who reported what he witnessed that same day. Shlomo's horrors did not need a diary; they remain grossly engraved in his mind, bleeding to this day."" Hugo Marom, Aeronautical Engineer and Ex-Test Pilot, Tel Aviv, Israel ""(Adler's) admirable forthrightness, the vigor and clarity of his mind, his deep emotionality and his immensely moving desire to make sense of the horrors that History visited upon him and his town make his narrative both unforgettable and profoundly important, at a time when the voices of so many survivors are being silenced forever."" Daniel Mendelsohn, Author of ""The Lost"" ""Mr. Adler is a born storyteller with a vivid, colorful command of language. As the content of what he tells is not invented, but stark reality, experienced by himself and supported by excellent memory, it would be a great loss were he not to record what he saw and lived through. I was most pleased when I heard that he had indeed begun to write a book. The chapters he gave me to read fulfilled all my expectation. Not only does he record events that would otherwise be lost, but he does so in a detailed, precise and stylistically satisfying manner, with gentle humor and, above all, the mature wisdom that age and distance to his horrifying experiences have given him. Mr. Adler's writing is both readable and historically accurate and, as eyewitnesses become fewer, an indispensable document to coming generations."" Anatol Regnier, Author, Munich, Germany ""Reading a book about the Holocaust is like reading about the sinking of the Titanic. You know the ending in advance, yet the tension of each individual story is heightened by the details of the life of the person with whom you are becoming involved as you read. ""A Jew Again by Shlomo Adler is the extraordinary story of an ordinary boy transformed by the events of his life into an extraordinary person. This book, translated into English from the original Hebrew, documents the life journey of Shlomo Adler from his pampered childhood in Poland, through the tragic and tumultuous years of the Second World War to his struggle with his Jewish identity to finally his immigration to Israel and to finding himself ""A Jew again."" ""Every detail of his life is so personally drawn, so intimately shared that it makes really fascinating reading as an autobiography in addition to the horrific and unimaginable background of the Holocaust which towers over the human story unfolding in these pages. All the characters in the book are brought to life with real empathy and supported by the photographs, give the reader an insider view of the life and times of that era. ""It was an eye-opening experience to read the book and look at the elderly gentleman, my friend, and see before me a hero! Thank you, Shlomo, for that privilege."" Norman Barron Kfar Saba, Israel"

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"Shlomo Adler was born in 1930 in the town of Bolechow, district of Stanislawow, in Poland, to Abraham and Sara Adler. Shlomo had a sister, Miriam, who was six years older than he. His parents and sister perished in the Holocaust. From the age of six, Shlomo studied in the Jewish basic school. In the afternoons he was sent to he was sent by his parents to the Tarbut school, where he learned Hebrew. Shlomo and his cousin Juzik (Joseph) Adler, who is one year older than Shlomo, survived the Holocaust. Juzik is the son of Shlomo's father's brother Herman. After the liberation Shlomo tried to hide his Jewish origin, and for almost two years he pretended to be Polish. He was arrested under accusation of being a Nazi and escaped from Poland. Shlomo's story, A Jew Again,"" may be found on Amazon where it is a best seller. After ten months in Cyprus, Shlomo arrived Palestine in September 1947. There he lived in a Kibbutz and served in the Israeli Army during the War for Independence. He is married to Ester. They have two sons, Abraham and David. Abraham is married to Malka and David is married to Elana. Shlomo and Ester have five grandchildren; Sarit, Mirit, Koby, Meital and Maya and twin great grandchildren, Shay Li and Matan. Shlomo worked for ElAl Israel Airlines. He made several improvements in cargo handling and invented and patented a system that increases the capacity in the lower deck of wide body airplanes. Shlomo lives in Kfar Saba, Israel, He is the head of the Bolechów Descendants in Israel Association. He is currently writing his fourth book, ""From Ashes to Torches."" Joan Adler's original training was in special education. After staying home to raise her two children, she invented a profession: literary research. Through this effort she was hired by a member of the Lazarus Straus family to research, document and disseminate information about the family. Her work includes extensive writing about the Straus family which she publishes in a semi-annual newsletter. She also writes and publishes books and articles for other publications. Joan found Shlomo Adler when she was working on the genealogy of her husband's family. She was moved by the tragedy of his Holocaust experiences and volunteered to translate his autobiography, A Jew Again, into English. She has once again worked with Shlomo Adler, this time in a more proactive manner, to help publish the inspiring story of Donia, a Jewish girl who posed as a Ukranian and saved the lives of a Jewish couple from the village of Bolechow."

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