The Journey of Markus Orbach

Accused by his schoolmates of killing Jesus, by 1938 ten-year-old Markus Orbach had already endured years of bullying and beating by his anti-Semitic schoolmates in the tiny town of Zolynia, Poland, where he lived. In 1939 life got much worse. The Nazis invaded. Over the next five years, ninety percent of Poland's three and a half million Jews were exterminated by the Nazis, including most of Markus' greater family. He managed to escape to Russian territory, only to find himself shipped acr...