The Path that Luck Took

The path of young Stanley’s life takes an abrupt turn when Nazi Germany invades Poland in September 1939. Growing up in Jasło in southeastern Poland, Stanley helps his parents sell goods at the market, plays with friends in the river and goes to school with his sisters. But when the German soldiers arrive with their new rules for the town’s Jews, who are eventually forced to live crammed into a small ghetto in one pocket of the city, Stanley is left bewildered at what his life has become. His path to survival finds him bravely — or foolishly — sneaking into and out of ghettos and Nazi camps. To Stanley, moving from one ghetto to another, from forced labour camp to concentration camp, it’s only by luck that he avoids the mass deportations to Belzec and other death camps, where arrival means death. From the infamous Plaszow camp to finally being liberated from Buchenwald, Stanley makes his way through the surprising and terror-filled Path that Luck Took.