Running Through Fire
How I Survived the Holocaust
Zosia Goldberg
As told to Hilton Obenzinger
With an introduction by Paul Auster
208 pages, Jewish Studies / Memoir
ISBN 978-1562791285
EBOOK 978-1562791353
Zosia Goldberg's heroic and startling tale of surviving the Nazi Genocide begins with the siege of Warsaw, whereafter Goldberg escaped the Warsaw Ghetto through the sewer and went on to survive the Holocaust posing as a Gentile. She was a débrouillarde, someone who could run through fire without getting burned. Hers is a story of resistance at every turn, of continual attempts at sabotage, of perpetually escaping and defeating the enemy. Her account is filled with unique energy and a wonder at the strangeness of human behavior. For not only did she suffer bitter betrayals by fellow Jews, she also encountered the unexpected sympathies of Nazis, and was at many times aided by her very tormentors. This is not just a story of the Holocaust, but of a woman struggling to make sense of human folly and depravity.
After surviving WWII, Zosia Goldberg (1918–2010) came to the United States, married, then moved to Caracas, Venezuela, to operate a garment business. She returned to the United States after her husband's death with her son.
A poet, novelist, and critic, and a recipient of the American Book Award, Hilton Obenzinger teaches American literature and honors writing at Stanford University and lives in Palo Alto, California, with his wife.
Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Man in the Dark, Oracle Night, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Auster's work has been translated into thirty-five languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
