Yeshayahu Harsit
ASIN: B00W4F43R0
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 580
Yeshayahu Harsit was born in 1934 in Warsaw, under the name of Stasio Porcelina to aged parents. On September 1 1939, Stasio’s childhood is brutally interrupted forever by the German bombers overhead. Thus begins his odyssey of escape, starvation, poverty, loss, and the incessant struggle for survival in the Asian steppes of the Soviet Union.After World War II, he makes his way through DP camps, meeting General Eisenhower and making his way to Israel, a new land under a new heaven. Now known as Yeshayahu, the protagonist joins the nascent Israeli Air Force. Yeshayahu’s achievements, professional and personal, highlight a life story that is rich and full of action. He writes down his storylovingly, tearfully, yet with a smile; his family stands as a solid rock of safety, a protective oasis to be left for posterity.Above all, this book shines with Yeshayahu’s great love for Israel– the ...