Includes a bonus chapter of the author’s preliminary research interviews with the sisters featured in the book.

Rebecca Frankel’s Into the Forest is a gripping story of love, escape, and survival, from wartime Poland to a wedding in Connecticut.

In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods — through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi raids — until they were liberated by the Red Army in 1944. After the war, they trekked across the Alps into Italy where they settled as refugees before eventually immigrating to the United States.