Michael Halperin, Out of the Storm: Holocaust to Hope. Boston: Cherry Orchard Books, 2025.

from Dialogues in Holocaust Studies and the Second World War · host Ari Barbalat

Send us Fan MailThis memoir recounts the story of Alex and Mela Roslan, a typical yet brave Polish family, who assist Jewish brothers in fleeing the Warsaw Ghetto. They develop a strong relationship and safeguard them throughout the Holocaust, persevering together through the difficult post-Holocaust years in Europe—a region plagued by increasing antisemitism.

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