And Life Must Go On – Dr Michael A Turek

And Life Must Go On – Dr Michael A TurekTrue story of a survivor of the massacre of Jews in Tiktin in Poland in WW2. On the outbreak of war in 1939, Dr Michael Abraham Turek, was living in the town of Tykocin, in Poland his birthplace, which had also been the hometown of his Jewish ancestors for 400 years. Michael Turek had inherited the medical practice that had been built up by his father and his grandfather. The practice was a large one, with many hundreds of patients among the Polish

True story of a survivor of the massacre of Jews in Tiktin in Poland in WW2.

On the outbreak of war in 1939, Dr Michael Abraham Turek, was living in the town of Tykocin, in Poland – his birthplace, which had also been the hometown of his Jewish ancestors for 400 years. Michael Turek had inherited the medical practice that had been built up by his father and his grandfather. The practice was a large one, with many hundreds of patients among the Polish people in the town and in the surrounding farm-districts. He was married with a wife and a baby.

How the terrors of war and racial persecution struck at him and his family is the story told with quiet dignity in this book. Everything seemed lost, as he and his brother were obliged to hide in the fields and forests, receiving help from friendly Polish farmers, while many thousands of other Jews were exterminated. After the storm had passed, he migrated to Australia, where he found security and happiness, and a new life.

Told with sincerity and simplicity, without sensational exaggerations, and with a scientist’s respect for facts, this is one of the most moving stories of the modern persecution of the Jews that has ever been written.

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