Run Boy Run is Jurek's authentic narrative, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, subsequently manages to survive in the woods and acts as a farm hand, devoting himself as being a orphan. He encounters those who'll betray him for a reward, who try to kill him or will beat up him , and he meets with people , who risk and can perform nearly every thing to help him. Jurek's resilience is put to the test, once an injury cripples him, making it harder to locate work. However he fights on against all of the odds. Eventually the Russians reach on his area and Jurek also discovers a household group. Yet he is betrayed again, and also also a new man from a Jewish orphanage attempts to bring his people and his or her beliefs Jurek.