Must read book about the Holocaust and what followed for one family
935075
This book is so inspirational.  One of my favorite things is that it tells the story of what happened to her and her remaining family members after they were liberated.  The additional struggles they faced could have been soul-crushing, but Ms. Laughlin has an amazing spirit.  Both from a human interest perspective and a historical perspective, this is a book I highly recommend.

I was lucky enough to see Ms. Laughlin speak at my local library this summer.  She is a national treasure and her story is wonderful.
1153227
This is the story of a holocaust survivor. We relive the story through the eyes of  Helen, a young Jewish girl. Mahurin's description of Helen's experiences as she lived through Hitler's atrocities are masterful. She combines the warm family relationships of the Stein family in direct contrast to the developing hatred against them. She writes of the bravely of Max and Helen's friendship . The human spirt is a powerful thing and this story will test not only Helen's but the readers. I simply could not put it down. I read if from start to finish in one sitting. Well researched and well written this is a book that will leave an impression. Although the story has been told before I believe Mahurin's fresh and engaging approach will leave the reader in no doubt that this book is a must read. Thoroughly recommend.
4253968
True story of a Jewish family surviving in Nazi Poland, keeps you on the edge of your seat.  Amazing how many of them survived and then found each other after the war in Europe and South America.  And they never wanted to talk about it.  The niece author worked hard to piece together the story.
2608994
This book is very good for anyone who wants to really know what Jews went through during the Holocaust. Until We Meet Again holds your attention, and is for anyone and everyone.
In the time of the holocaust under Hitler's rule there was a two teenage lovers, a boy named Meyer and a girl named Manya. They lived in the little town Hrubieszow, Poland,in a ghetto like all the rest of the Jews. Then the day came that they were transported out of the ghetto to the first concentration camp. They were torn from each other and their families as the were moved from one concentration camp to the next. But before they departed, Meyer and Manya made a promise to each other: No matter what happens, stay alive until liberation and meet back at Hrubieszow. Will they both survive the brutal and vicious days of the holocaust? Will they make it to each other in time? Read this true story of love, life and survival and find out.

  -written by: Kelsey Bishop
1091960
The story of a German Jewish family's  survival in WWII that is written by and encompasses it's effect on the second generation.
4635390
This book should be required reading for school aged children, along with Anne Frank's Diary. The author writes the story of the Lodz ghetto in Poland, as told to her by her Aunt Syvia, which was liberated in 1945 by the Germans.  She writes that of a quarter million people in the ghetto, only 800 survived, 12 of them children. Aunt Syvia was one of those children.

Of the many books written about the holocaust, this one focuses more on life in the ghetto from the confusion of a child's perspective. While sad at times, there are periods of lightheartedness that make the book a realistic depiction of what life must have been like for them.  Highly recommend this book for adults and age appropriate children.
4877759
Amazing and compelling story of a German Family 1935-1949
 Jutta Bolle was born in pre-Nazi Germany in 1929. I was born in South Africa in 1930. The reason I found this book so interesting was because I had no idea when growing up in absolute luxury in sunny South Africa, how different our two lives had been. This is a completely fascinating book, magnificently written and is a gripping tale of the horrors and triumphs of a little girl [my age] who lived throughout the war in Nazi Germany. You will have difficulty putting this book down, as it will hold your attention from the first to the last page. Riveting details of the terror of this little girl, and her family during the Russian occupation of Berlin. It has a very happy ending, in that shortly after the end of the war, Jutta immigrated to the United States, and spent many happy and productive years, raising a family, and now lives near Cape Town, in sunny South Africa! This book is a must-read! Ian Grant- Whyte MA.MD (Cambridge University)

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3885776
Broken Birds: The Story of My Momila is by Jeannette Katzir.  It is the story of her Mother and Father as well as the lasting effect the Holocaust has on her family.  It is a very interesting book and it is not written in terms of a normal biography.  It is a poignant story of the broken bonds the siblings have  which are not that unusual for a family broken by war.  Momila comes out of the war a much stronger person than one who went into it while Tat or Daddy comes across more as a people pleaser.
Nathan or Tat had come from a small town in the Ukraine in1926.  He was the third born of Jeno Polczer and his second wife Jolin.  Jeno had married Jolin to care for his five children from his first wife.  Jeno operated a transportation business but was not very ambitious and could be found more often than not at the synagogue while his sons worked for the family. Even as a young child, Nathan worked well for the family. Jolins real income didn't come from the sale of chickens but with her income from the black market with sugar.  When Jeno was stopped while carrying a load of sugar, he told the officials that the sugar belonged to his wife.  She was taken away. While she was gone, the family was rounded up with all other Jews and taken away. They were taken to Auschwitz where he last saw his family.  He was taken to clean up the Warsaw Ghetto and then to Dachau and Maudorf.  When released by the Americans, he joined Channa, Isaac and Leja and headed for America and a new life.
Channa (Momila) and her brother Isaac fled the Warsaw Ghetto into the forest to be with the partisans.  With the help of her brother Isaac and Leja, a girl in the  partisans, Channa became an integral part of the partisans.  Luckily she survived and left for the US with her brother, Leja, and Nathan.  She and Nathan married and set about creating a new life for themselves and their children.
Jeannette tells the story of her parents and the raising of their five children.  The stories of their parents during the Holocaust is told in a swift manner as the story of their survival is more important to them as they face growing up as the children of Holocaust survivors.  Channas early story is told In a fictitious manner in Jeannettes book, Footprints in the Forest.  Broken Birds tells her true story as well as that of her family .
4665035
This is one of the best books I have read telling her story of happenings during the years of the Holocaust. Most books are  written in generalities by men in that terrible time in history. But this book was personal (first person) from a woman who lived through the Holocaust and survived to tell her story.
2707512
This is an amazing book in every way. I could not put it down. It is different than other books i have read about the Holocaust. It is suspenseful, emotional, interesting, it draws you in in every way. I highly recommend it.
3376942
One of the best books I have ever read about the Holocaust.  Or actually one of the best books ever.  Amazingly detailed, the story is so nuanced and has many many wonderful layers.  It was truly as described,, impossible to put down.  I actually stayed home during the day I was so riveted. I was so sorry to get to the last page.  Although I have read many Holocaust narratives and fiction, events in small towns in Poland, like these very particular settings in towns and their surrounding countryside, were previously unknown to me.  Its so hard to imagine the vast occupation of Europe by the Germans.  Nazis were everywhere.  It was seemingly impossible to hide.  Great, great book.
4722289
I bought the book on a saturday evening, by Sunday afternoon I was done. I have been reading a lot of Holocaust books and this has to be one of the best. So sad and yet so true... If you truly want to learn about the horrors of the holocaust start with this book.
3788598
What can a person say after reading such a book, similar to Anne Frank this book, this book is a relocation of memories of a teenage Jewish boy who miraculously survived not one but four nazi concentration camps: Dachau, Auschwitz, Vaihingen and Neckagerach.

A very personal and touching book, not a light read but something more people should read about, remember and never let happen again.
2395890
For a WWII unit my 8th grade class was assigned to read a holocaust book and I just picked this one because I didn't want to spend a lot of time looking for a book and the book I picked was the cage. The book I read was the cage by Ruth Minsky Sender. I thought that it was a great book and I really liked the book a lot It was about a girl named Riva who is thirteen and her mother was taken away by the nazi's and then Riva has to take care of her brothers. Riva and her brother go into hiding in their basement when they reaize that they are going to be found out about sooner or later so they get their remaining neighbors and belonging together and they go to the train station where they bored a train.for three or four days without getting out of the train to get something to eat,go to the bathroom,or get. They finally arive at the concentration camp and they are treated like dirt just because of their relgion. Riva was seperated from her brothers and taken to work in a factory then soon after she became sick and she wasn't able to work in the factory her arm was amputated but she still was determined to try her hardest to survive the horrible ordeal and to find her family when she was freed from the concentration camp I think that everyone should read this book because it teaches a good leason that noone should be judged by their relgion, race hair, eyes or any other feature that people may not like someone for
415408
This book is a "MUST READ" It is the story of a young Jewish boy who lost his Father to the brutality of the NAZI regime. He was torn from his family and sent to a forced labor camp where he was stripped of all human rights and subjected to dispicable treatment. Through his faith and his strong will to live and his hope to be reunited with his family, he survived Hitler's hell in several different Concentration camps. After he was finally set free, he discovered that all of his family members had lost their lives in the Holocaust.  He was the only survivor. He was alone with nothing to his name and nowhere to go when he left that camp.  This book is a well written, true and honest account of his atrocious experience as a youth. Alter Wiener is a man of integrity and honor. The way he expresses his love and respect for his family, especially his Father and Stepmother is heart-warming. I greatly admire Dr. Wiener for sharing his story.
4131662
I have just finished this slim book. I couldn't put it down. I feel numb after reading this. I always wanted to learn more about the holocaust, and this is a painful stepping stone of understanding what thousands of innocent people endured. Whilst reading about what had happened to the children, I couldn't help but think of my own children and myself. You must read this book, I am lost for words.
4529853
What a wonderful engrossing book. I shed tears while reading about the atrocities perpetrated against Jews before and during the Second World War. Ms Costeloe must have done so much research to write this harrowing book. It is one of the best I have read and could easily recommend this about the evils of the Nazi Party during the war. It would be hoped that this would never happen again but the World we live in is sadly not so perfect,