Author Description

As a young Jewish boy in pre-war Hungary, Avrum has a physically poor but spiritually rich life. The eldest of seven children, he becomes the breadwinner when his father is sent away to forced labor. The situation worsens when the entire family is sent to the Auschwitz death camp in a crowded, stinking cattle car. But even in the horror, there is hope. Avrum meets a young girl, and from the shadow of death comes life. Astoundingly, Avrum survives the camps. Now an orphan, he makes the desperate choice to preserve his people in a land of their own. From the fires of Auschwitz to the battle of Jerusalem, his story is the journey of a warrior. To establish this role, he takes a new name, a name which resounds in history. He becomes Avrum bar Kochba.