The Fields of Ukraine
"The Fields of Ukraine shows movingly how a Jewish father and his teenage son survived the horrors of the Holocaust by relying on their mutual courage, sacrifice and love. This book deserves a wide readership."
"You won't be able to put down this almost unbelievable story which attests to the strength of the human spirit: 'To carry on as long as there was a breath of life in us was the secret weapon that kept us alive.'"
"In this moving account, a father and son in Ukraine found inner strength and discovered the goodwill of a few to survive and tell this story and that of the town of Zurawno."
Intermountain Jewish News, Rabbi Hillel Goldberg, 14 May 2009
Color me skeptical. And color me wrong. First, I receive a Holocaust memoir — another one. They come almost a week, it seems. Second, a Holocaust memoir published in Denver? We are not a center of book publishing. But, as Sam Jonas speaks to me, I keep an open mind, and I'm very glad I did.
ATM Marketplace and Networld Alliance, Tracy Kitten, 18 Aug 2009
The ATM marketplace has changed quite a bit since its boom in the mid-1990s. Market consolidation and, arguably, market saturation have pushed many ATM veterans in non-ATM directions. But only one of them stands out among the crowd — for his pursuit to fulfill a deeper mission that has nothing to do with financial services and a lot to do with personal conviction.
By Ralph Seliger, 20 April 2009
To my shock, my long deceased maternal grandparents (victims of the Holocaust), suddenly appeared in the pages of a book I was reading. Not only are they named in the non-fiction narrative, The Fields of Ukraine: A 17-Year-Old's Survival of Nazi Occupation/The Story of Yosef Laufer, the book also relates what led to their violent end.