Joseph Gavi, Young Hero of the Minsk Ghetto

Follow the shocking but true story of Joseph Gavi, a small Jewish boy growing up in Minsk, Byelorussia during the German invasion of WWII. Relive unspeakable horrors surrounding him as he at first struggles to simply survive and then to overcome his brutal oppressors through covert action with the "Freedom Fighters" as he rescues more than 200 of his people from the imprisoning ghetto while constantly evading immediate death by execution. Read with spellbinding detail of each harrowing escape, at times only inches from being discovered and tortuous death. Experience the war time betrayal of "loyal" friends and later that of comrades as his postwar successes in the Soviet Union are thwarted as well by his old enemy, anti-Semitism. Finally, follow this highly decorated veteran, mountain climbing instructor and scientist as he resolves to pierce the Iron Curtain and flee to America only to face the endless frustrations of a repressive bureaucratic battle ground toward his eventual entrepreneurial success through citizenship in the USA. Book jacket.

Carlton Jackson is a University Distinguished Professor of History at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, where he has taught since 1961. He is also the University's "Right Honorable Mace." He has held four senior Fulbright senior lecturing awards: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and in the 1989-90 school year, he was the Bicentennial Professor of American Studies at the University of Helsinki in Finland. He has been on numerous lecture tours for the U.S. State Department and U.S. Information Agency in Asia, Europe, and South America. He has been a visiting professor at William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia; Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts; Graz University in Austria; Belize College in Belize; and the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. He lives with his wife, Pat, out in the wilderness of Butler County, Kentucky