This book was so good, I stayed up all night reading it. I was so invested in the author's world, as a Jewish teenager in occupied Poland. This was like a coming of age novel, against the most horrifying backdrop possible.
The prose is beautiful, reflective, vivid. She honors her family and the women she was in the labor camps with and makes them feel real through her writing.
This is the first time I read a Holocaust memoir and thought that someone should make a (limited) series about it. Her homelife during the occupation, her time at the labor camp with the other women. The way she meets her husband by the end is also straight out of a movie.
I hope I didn't sensationalize this because it is obviously a very grim subject and someone's real lived story. I just thought it was one of the most compelling Holocaust memoirs that I have ever read. To me, this is on par with Maus, Night, and the Diary of Anne Frank.
Has anyone here read this book? Do you have any recommendations for lesser knwon holocaust memoirs, especially written by women?
by EmpressPlotina
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i haven’t read it yet, but the way you describe it makes me want to pick it up. have you read ‘survival in auschwitz’ by primo levi? it’s a different perspective, but equally haunting.
this book wrecked me in the best way. her writing is so powerful, and the way she captures both the horror and resilience is just unreal. totally agree it would make an incredible limited series. if you’re looking for more, *Rena’s Promise* by Rena Kornreich Gelissen is another haunting but beautiful memoir from a woman’s perspective.