#1 on Hot New Amazon Release in Holocaust Biographies
NOVEMBER 2025
Based on a True Story
Poland, 1939:
One moment, fifteen-year-old Rafal Kantor is walking home from school, dreaming of summer. The next, his world erupts in fire and fear. As Nazi forces storm his town, Rafal is thrown into a brutal new reality—where names vanish into numbers, kindness invites danger, and survival becomes a quiet, daily rebellion.
Dragged through ghettos, cattle cars, labor camps and ultimately Buchenwald, Rafal quickly learns that staying alive is only the beginning. It takes nerve. It takes strength. And it takes an unyielding resilience that holds on when everything else is stripped away—his safety, his innocence, his faith in the world. Yet Rafal never loses his voice, the story he carries, or the fragile hope that someday he will survive to tell it.
UNBREAKABLE is a sweeping, emotionally charged Holocaust memoir and WWII survivor story. It’s a powerful portrait of a young man’s fight to stay human in a world gone mad.
One moment, fifteen-year-old Rafal Kantor is walking home from school, dreaming of summer. The next, his world erupts in fire and fear. As Nazi forces storm his town, Rafal is thrown into a brutal new reality—where names vanish into numbers, kindness invites danger, and survival becomes a quiet, daily rebellion.
Dragged through ghettos, cattle cars, labor camps and ultimately Buchenwald, Rafal quickly learns that staying alive is only the beginning. It takes nerve. It takes strength. And it takes an unyielding resilience that holds on when everything else is stripped away—his safety, his innocence, his faith in the world. Yet Rafal never loses his voice, the story he carries, or the fragile hope that someday he will survive to tell it.
UNBREAKABLE is a sweeping, emotionally charged Holocaust memoir and WWII survivor story. It’s a powerful portrait of a young man’s fight to stay human in a world gone mad.
“A literary act of remembrance that breaks your heart--
and then gives you the courage to carry the story forward.”
—Jackie Congedo, Chief Executive Officer
Nancy and David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center
and then gives you the courage to carry the story forward.”
—Jackie Congedo, Chief Executive Officer
Nancy and David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center
