Never the Last Road: A Partisan's Life

Never the Last Road: A Partisan's Life by Fred Rosenbaum. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780996088633.

Mira Shelub’s story is stirring and uncommon. Her advanced schooling at the renowned Yiddish-language Real-Gymnasium in the heart of Vilna, the “Jerusalem of the North,” put her in touch with the major Jewish intellectual currents of her day. During the Nazi occupation, the escape of her entire family from the ghetto and its flight into the forest was little short of miraculous. Never a forest wife who settled for any male protector, she would meet, fall in love, and marry a partisan to whom she was exceedingly well suited; theirs would be a passionate love story ending only with his untimely death. In postwar America, Mira went back to school at age sixty-two, earned two degrees, and succeeded in both the business and the non-profit worlds."An extraordinary story of horror, courage, and fortitude told with such simplicity and clarity. Mira Shelubs recollections of pre-war Vilna, of Soviet, and then Nazi-occupied Poland, and her life among partisans in Belorussias forests is a document of singular, bracing truthfulness."-- Steven J. Zipperstein, Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History, Stanford University