Lucky Escapes – Sophie Caplan Cadry a firing squad and a

a firing squad and a death march through the brutal Polish winter

he leads a happy life

family and their history (including books

creating in the process an unforgettable portrait of a city

recruited spies

Lucky Escapes – Sophie Caplan Cadry a firing squad and aMemoirs of a Jewish Childhood This book is a remarkable testament to resilience. Sophie Caplan details her life as a Jewish girl, and that of her family, in pre war Europe in the early 20th century. The detail with which she conjures up descriptions of her day to day existence transports the reader back to that time. As the dark years of Nazism approach, Sophie describes members of her familys fears and desperate desire to flee, including