About the book: 2024 / From the author of the first biography of the Sobibor hero Alexander Pechersky. Along the San River in the fall of 1939, the war divided the Polish city of Przemysl into two parts - German and Soviet. Jews fled across bridges and fords from cities and towns occupied by Hitler in the USSR. The fate of the fugitives was not easy, many were sent straight from the border to camps and prisons, but ultimately most of them managed to escape certain death in the fires of the Holocaust. From the pages of this book you will learn about the further fate of these people, including the future head of the State of Israel Menachem Begin and one of the greatest Soviet composers Mieczyslaw Weinberg. And also about how border guard lieutenant Ivan Krivonogov fiercely defended his bunker on the San River for 12 days, and how after three and a half years of captivity he escaped from a concentration camp on the island of Usedom on a German bomber. And also about how Wehrmacht Chief Lieutenant Albert Battel took Jews out of the Przemysl ghetto in a truck, thanks to him, the survivors. The book also includes other little-known stories based on the author’s archival research, the first of which date back to the beginning of the Second World War (September 1939), and the last to its end (August 1945). The publishing layout has been preserved..