About the Book

1938. A young Jewish couple, Fryda and Natek, meet at a popular resort in southern Poland. Fryda dreams of finding the right man. Natek wants to be a famous Olympic bicycle racer; or rich … at least as his brother, Berek. Hitler dreams of a new world order, with no Jews. As the Germans invade Poland in 1939, the extermination begins. “In the Vise of Evils” tells the harrowing and nearly miraculous story of how Natek, his fiancée, Fryda, his brothers, Berek and Reuven, and two friends, escape from the Nazis’ malevolent claws straight into the Soviets’ vicious jaws. The group is arrested, crammed into boxcars, and sent on their one-way voyage to hell. Two years after the brutal arrest and death camp confinement, Stalin finally submits to amnesty of selected Polish subjects. Natek and Berek, now free, embark on an unforgettable yearlong odyssey to find and to rescue Fryda….