Taking Risks: A Jewish Youth in the Soviet Partisans and his Unlikely Life in California
by Joseph Pell

ISBN: 978-1-57143-117-2

"Every Holocaust story is unique, but Joe Pell's is so extraordinary it transcends the genre. Pell's book is part World War II saga, part adventure tale, part memoir. It encompasses the tragedy of the war and the triumph of the survivors. It goes from Pell's days sleeping on leaves and digging for potatoes in the Ukranian woods to his life among the Bay Area's most successful businessmen. It's also a great read. -Caroline Jones, San Francisco Chronicle

"Although there are many holocaust memoirs, the stories of those brave men and women who fought back with the partisans is often overshadowed by stories of those who fled or survived the concentration camps. Joseph Pell's story is an especially compelling one not only because of his heroic actions in the face of the Nazi juggernaut and the rampant and often lethal Ukranian and Polish anti-Semitism, but it is an American immigrant success story as well." -Michael Krasny, KQED Forum