At the age of eight, Srulik is left alone in the Warsaw Ghetto, and must fend for himself, even forgetting his name, in order to survive the Holocaust.

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Published by Walter Lorraine Books/Houghton Mifflin Company. Originally published in Hebrew in 2001 as "רוץ ילד, רוץ."

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