Michaels, Anne, — Fugitive Pieces.

NY, Vintage, (1996). 1st ptg thus. VG PB. In 1940 Jakob Beer bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city where he buried himself to hide from soldiers who murdered. his family. He is only 7 & by all rights should have shared the fate of the other Jews in his village. But he survives & goes on to become an artist who extracts meaning from the Holocaust's abyss.