The Commissar Took Care

Brunswick (Australia): Globe Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1986). 1st English-language edition. Hardcover. [nice-looking copy, just a bit of wear to the spine ends; the jacket shows light handling wear only]. Novel, "originally published in Yiddish in 1956," about the World War II experiences of a Polish Jew who flees into the Soviet Union (with his father and brother) from the advancing German army, and eventually ends up spending five years in various forced labor camps. Per the jacket blurb, this seems to parallel the author's own experiences to a large degree. .