title: Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance
author:  Jack Sutin 
description: Sutin (Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick) crafted this Holocaust account from a series of interviews he conducted with his parents. Narrating alternately, Jack and Rochelle vividly describe how they, as Polish Jews, fled separately in 1942 from their respective ghettos, where they had been relocated by the Germans. Each hid in the woods; and, after harrowing encounters with anti-Semitic escaping Russian soldiers, Rochelle joined Jack's group of Jewish partisans. Although mere acquaintances before the outbreak of war, Jack and Rochelle became lovers and together fought in the resistance movement, enduring near-starvation, disease and the constant threat of capture by Germans and Poles. After the war, the Sutins married and emigrated to the U.S. An unsentimental and informative story. Photos not seen by PW. <BR>Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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   **Jack and Rochelle**
  
   **A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance**
  
  Jack and Rochelle Sutin, edited by Lawrence Sutin
  
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   _For the grandchildren_ — _David, Danny, and Sarah_
  
   _ **Contents**_
  
  Preface
  
  Principal Locations in the Narrative, 1939–1945
  
  I Family Roots and Coming of Age
  
  II Life Under Soviet Rule
  
  III Onset of the Nazi Horror
  
  IV Jack Escapes from the Mir Ghetto
  
  V Rochelle Escapes from the Stolpce Ghetto
  
  VI Courtship in the Woods
  
  VII From the Bunker to the Atrad
  
  VIII Nazi Assault on the Nalibocka Forest
  
  IX Under the Soviet Yoke Again
  
  X From Germany to America
  
  XI Life in America
  
  An Afterword on the “Second Generation”
  
  Image Gallery
  
  Notes and Acknowledgments
  
  Index
  
  About the Authors
  
   **Preface**
  
  The narrative you ar