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They Ran For My Life

by Sam Sultan

231 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #03-0022; ISBN 1-55395-659-1; US$21.50, C$28.00, EUR18.20, £12.70

Stories of heroism and adventure encountered by twelve young people escaping Nazism and Communism for the freedom of the U.S.A.

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About the Book Twelve people left the confining bonds of Europe to seek freedom. THEY RAN FOR MY LIFE is the story of each of their adventures as they went through the trials of escape. The accounts are of their family members and of how their bravery provided for a free life for their descendants. WHY WOULD I WANT TO BUY "THEY RAN FOR MY LIFE" No matter where you are in the world today, you live there because you or some past family member had the courage to leave familiar home and surroundings to seek a better life. They Ran for My Life brings to life the actual trials and encounters met by similiar young immigrants. My wish is that you and your descendants will delve into your own family history after reading They Ran for My Life.

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About the Author Sam Sultan and his wife Charlotte have been the keepers of their family trees for thirty years. They have encouraged family members to describe their ordeals as they left their families, their customs, their language, and their country to seek a better life. This book is a result of the Sultans' lifetime work.

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INTRODUCTION      For the past thirty years (since 1972), my wife Charlotte and gathered family histories from around the world and added them to our four volumes of Family Trees.      This book is a tribute to our valiant relatives and their adventures. We are so fortunate that we asked for their stories while the subjects were living. Many of our acquaintances lost their family history because they didn't ask.      My undying thanks to each of these very brave souls. They left their families and familiar surroundings with no money in their pockets, no knowledge of the language of their new country, and total unfamiliarity with the customs of their destinations.      Without their unflinching bravery, my family would undoubtedly have been raised in Poland or Russia and perished in the Holocaust together with the forty-nine members of our expanded family who were murdered because they stayed behind.      What follows in this book of adventure are the stories of thirteen of these brave members of my family.      Isadore Sultan, and the story of his brave trek across the mountains, valleys, and deserts to reach Palestine.      Isadore's brother, Moishe Soltanov, was unsuccessful in his attempt to join Isadore in Palestine. When we visited our Russian family in Israel, Moishe's son, Yakov, told to us his exciting story.      Abraham Rosenblum is my mother, Rose's, father. He went to America to prepare for a good life for his wife and children. But he found America was the wrong place to practice his religious beliefs.      My mother, Rose Sultan, the daughter of Abraham and Anna Rosenblum, told of growing up on Poland in such vivid terms we could actually live it. We made two cassettes of her oral stories, which form the basis of the Rosenblum stories. She and her sisters Gertie and Esther had so much fun on the ship from Europe to New York.      Isaac and Rachel Orloff are my wife, Charlotte's grandparents. She had heard stories of how her grandfather made it possible for his family to leave Russia for America. Charlotte's aunts, Esther, Ann, Rose and Reda filled her in on the details of her grandparents' fleeing their homeland.      Her brother, Arnold Orloff, had listened carefully to the stories of their Grandmother Sarah Elfenbein and was a great source of information. Because the entire family was able to leave Russia long before World War II, not one of her family perished in the Holocaust.      Moniek Mauer, whose mother was a Prawer and therefore my cousin, told Charlotte and me, when we visited him in Australia, of his family's mad dash from Bedzin, being strafed by the Luftwaffe, and the trauma of having his father die in his arms.      My cousin, Fishel Prawer wrote a long memoir of his life growing up in Poland and his exotic adventure in the Suberian Gulag. He kindly gave me permission to tape it for his chapter in this book. He is living in New York City.      Sam Soltan (he spelled his last name different from mine) was my father's Uncle, the brother of my grandfather, Wolf Soltanov. His tales were told many times when we all lived in St. Paul, Minnesota. His daughter, Nancy filled me in on many of the details that involved her part in his adventures.      Charlotte and I met our cousin, Benny Prawer, at his home in Melbourne, Australia. His son Jeffery and daughter-in-law Brenda Prawer taped Benny's memoirs, asking him questions, which prodded his memory.      The fascinating life of his brother, Yitzhak Prawer also was a result of Jeffrey and Brenda's research, which brought the story of Yitzhak to life. They shared both stories with us when we visited them in Israel.      All these personal accounts took place prior to 1948. We met the newest immigrants to this country just two years ago. Deborah Dyakova and her brother Vladimir (originally 'Wolf') Ochakovski emigrated from Siberia to San Francisco in 1991. We taped their stories as they related them, and saw their family pictures.      Now that you have the relationships straight, enjoy their stories. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Isadore Sultan - The Long, Long Walk By foot from Russia to the Carmel in Palestine 2. Moishe Soltanov - Dogged Determination Defending Jewish settlements with Trumpeldor 3. Abraham Rosenblum - America is a Gentile Country! A plea to return to Poland 4. Rose Sultan - Back Home Smuggling tobacco from Czechoslavakia 5. Isaac Orloff - The Shot that save his Life A Jewish soldier in Russia's war with Japan 6. Rachel Orloff - An American Pogrom? Skies lighted with explosions in New York 7. Moniek Mauer - Save the Women Strafed by the German air force 8. Fishel Prawer - Lost in the Gulag Six years slave labor in Siberia 9. Sam Soltan - By way of Argentina Caught in the mesh of Prohibition 10. Benny Prawer - With the Maquis Free French Underground guerrilla 11. Yitzhak Prawer - Shoe Box Secrets A hero in the war for the state of Israel 12. Deborah & Vladimir - From Novosibirsk to San Francisco The Intelligentsia in Siberia 13. Epilogue - Those who were left Behind Horror experienced by those who stayed

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