But Can the Phoenix Sing Author:Christa Laird Misha Edelman, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, is now married and living in England. In the hope of creating a better understanding with his stepson, Misha writes an autobiographical letter describing the events that shaped his life when, at the age of fourteen, he stepped out of the sewers of the ghetto to freedom. He was guided to the forest ... more »of Parczew near Warsaw by Eva, an extraordinary young partisan, and became the youngest member of her group.
In the forest, Misha found that he had exchanged one life of danger for another, danger that called for the highest degree of courage. But throughout his time as a partisan, and later back in Warsaw, Misha was sustained by rare friendships that helped him understand there is more to survival than physical escape--and that the ability of the mythical phoenix to rise from the ashes has little value unless the phoenix can also sing.« less