We Who Lived

<p> Hava (Eva) Bromberg and Ephraim Sokal were Jewish teenagers in Poland when the Nazis invaded in 1939. Hiding in plain sight Bromberg lived among the non-Jewish Polish population always in danger of discovery or betrayal.</p><p> Sokal and his family were deported as enemies of the people when the Russians occupied eastern Poland--a calamity that saved their lives. Liberated by the 1941 Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union Sokal fought the Germans serving with the Polish Navy and British armed forces.</p><p> Bromberg and Sokal met in 1947 both facing the challenges of surviving in a postwar world they were unprepared for. This combined memoir tells their story of resilience.</p>