Uncle Misha’s Partisans

Yuri Suhl

1973

“At night the wolves were roaming the forest. By day the Germans were roaming the countryside. And I was in the middle, afraid to move. One day that Good Angel, the peasant, came to warn me that I was still in danger. He told me the forester was boasting to everybody that he had discovered several Jews in the forest and pointed them out to the…

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Yuri Suhl

1908–1986

Yuri Suhl was born in Podhajce, Austria-Hungary (now Poland), and came to New York City as a teenager. He was a teacher, poet, and fiction writer who wrote in Yiddish and English. Suhl received the National Jewish Book Award for Uncle Misha’s Partisans.

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