Poland, 1944 The train slowed and halted with a squeal of the brakes. It felt like we waited in the carriage for an eternity, but eventually, the heavy doors opened, directly into the chaos outside. Poland, 1944 The train slowed and halted with a squeal of the brakes. It felt like we waited in the carriage for an eternity, but eventually, the heavy doors opened, directly into the chaos outside. Sara Leibovits, a 16-year-old Jewish girl, was a passenger on the train, together with her family. Within minutes, their horrific fate was sealed.The little family spent their final minutes together on the platform at Auschwitz before they were ordered in all directions and each left to their own fate. Sara’s mother and baby brothers were sent to their deaths. Her father was made a Sonderkommando, one of the men forced to remove the bodies from the gas chambers, and was later executed. This is the powerful true story of Sara Leibovits and the incredible pain and hardships she went through during her time in the Death Camp. Yet despite the horrors she faced she always tried to maintain her families’ values ​​of courage, faith and kindness to others. Her story is intertwined with that of her daughter, Eti, seventy years later, who embodies the voice of the second generation and completes the Holocaust survivors' tale. Step into the past with this captivating memoir Step into the past with this captivating memoir - A beautifully written memoir from a survivor of Auschwitz which was previously self-published digitally with over 1500 5* reviews - The book is narrated in two voices – Sara's leading voice, which tells of her survival in Auschwitz-Birkenau with courage, faith and kindness to others, and the secondary voice of her daughter Eti, who completes her mother's story, seventy years later. Together, the two voices create the fabric of survival, heroism, and memory.
Pubblicato da: HarperCollins Publishers