This is the face of a boy whose youth was taken from him, who doesn't know anymore how to cry or laugh, that life has crushed under the inhuman weight of cruel reality. In this photograph you see the mask of a face; if that mask were lifted you would see a mind troubled by life that too cruelly torments your son, Leopold Berman wrote his father in a postcard sent shortly after leaving a refugee camp. THE STORY OF A JEWISH BOY recounts the horrors and fleeting hopes of a boy and his family trying to survive the final days of World War II in Italy.

Literary Nonfiction. Jewish Studies.