Publisher's Synopsis
"Singer / songwriter Oscar Sladek shares his personal childhood story of having survived the Holocaust. As an eight year old Jewish boy from Presov, Slovakia, young Oscar and his parents, middle class merchants (and his father was a respected composer and concert violinist), fled for their lives into the cold winter Tatras in order to survive capture by the Nazi's and their collaborators. An intimate memoir written for young adult readers and above. National Book Award winner James Carroll calls Escape to the Tatras " a masterpiece of love and survival""--.
