A Woman of Valor
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Pub Date Sep 8 2026 | Archive Date Sep 15 2026
Histria Books | Histria Fiction
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Description
From a crowded Sabbath table in Bialystok to the gas chambers of Auschwitz and the fires of resistance, one family fights to stay human as the world turns to ash.
Bialystok, once noisy with markets, arguments, and Sabbath songs, narrows to a cellar, a factory floor, then barbed wire. The Lefkovitz family—patriarch Nachum, fierce Fraida, brilliant Emma and her beloved Yoel—are swept from prosperity into the tightening fist of Nazi rule. Synagogues burn. Hospitals are raided. Children vanish into transports “to the east.” Every rumor is worse than the last, and every choice could mean life or instant death.
Inside the ghetto, hunger, terror, and betrayal grind people down. Yet Emma runs messages, smuggles weapons, hides the pregnant and the hunted. As deportations to extermination camps accelerate, she and the underground weigh an impossible question: walk quietly toward the trains, or turn the ghetto itself into a battlefield.
Told with unflinching honesty and searing intimacy, A Woman of Valor follows the Lefkovitzes from ghetto liquidation and trains packed with the dying, to forests where partisans strike back and, later, the fragile rebirth of survivors in Israel.
Readers who were gripped by the emotional force of The Tattooist of Auschwitz will be unable to look away from this family’s shattering, unforgettable journey.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781592117635 |
| PRICE | $27.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 652 |
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Featured Reviews
Jessica M, Reviewer
The author does an incredible job bringing the setting of everything and culture to life, making it easy to become invested in the characters and their struggles.
The book isn’t the fastest paced read, but it’s rewarding if you enjoy character driven historical fiction.
If readers love immersive historical fiction with strong character development and meaningful themes, this would be for them!
Yonah S, Reviewer
Woman of Valor written by author Fred Skolnik. This book is very detailed and quite long but is well worth the wait. It takes time to really describes the characters in great detail so that when the story gets going you feel as if you know the family involved. The Lefkovitz clan is a very large Jewish family who together run a large well organized family textile business. With five brothers and sisters, and sixteen children, the textile factory employs 100 Poles and Jews. Both Russian comunists and the Nazis will not approve of this. We meet Emma Lefkovitz, the first grandchild, who is forced to become a fighter. She will take on their enemies and get revenge for her people. Will they ever make it out alive? Read this great book and find out.
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