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- English
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About this book
"Please, Mama, I don't want to live like this," pleaded twelve-year-old Estelle Glaser's older sister as they watched the bodies of friends dangle from the gibbet in the center of the appelplatz of the Madjanek concentration camp. "I cannot take the indignities and brutalities. Let's step forward and make them kill us now."But Estelle's mother fiercely responded to her two daughters: No! Life is sacred. It is noble to fight to stay alive.Their mother's indomitable will was a major factor in the trio's survival in the face of brutal odds. But Estelle recognized other heroes in the ghetto and camps as well, righteous individuals who stood out like beacons and kept their spirits alive. Their father was one, as were hungry teachers in dim, cold rooms who risked their lives to secretly teach imprisoned children. Estelle herself learned to draw on a joyful past, and to bring her own light into the void. Estelle's memoir, published sixty-four years after her liberation from the Nazis, is a narrative of fear and hope and resiliency. While it is a harrowing tale of destruction and loss, it is also a story of the goodness that still exists in a dark world, of survival and renewal.Also 04 Activeable in e-book formats, 978-0-89672-800-4
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology of Upheavals that Led to World War
- Part I: War
- 1 Strong! United! Ready!
- 2 Invasion
- 3 Ghetto and Moral Resistance
- 4 Deportation
- 5 No Place for Children
- 6 Subghettos
- 7 The Uprising and the End of the Warsaw Ghetto
- 8 Tata’s Last Word
- 9 Majdanek
- 10 Longing
- 11 Skarźysko
- 12 Częstochowa
- Part II: Liberation
- 13 A Miracle
- 14 The Old Woman in Kielce
- 15 The Two Russian Soldiers
- 16 Parting with Mama
- 17 The Night
- 18 Działoszyce
- 19 Awakening
- 20 The Escape
- 21 Another Strange Town
- 22 Time to Leave Again
- 23 Prague
- 24 Hof
- 25 Voyage to America
- Part III: A New Dawn
- 26 America at Last
- 27 A Place of Our Own
- 28 Wedding Bells
- 29 West Virginia and Beyond
- 30 Farewell to Mama (1981)
- 31 A New Leaf