I'm a big, big fan of books like this - I'm fascinated by the Holocaust. I'm not very sure that's a PC thing to say, but it's also the truth. I'm fascinated & horrified & amazed by the Holocaust, the evil of it, and how anyone managed to survive it, and I'm always very, very honored to read anything written by someone who lived through those terrible dark days.

that being said, I really struggle to write reviews about this subject - I try very hard to point out the positive & the negative in reviews & I think I've gotten better about it lately, but how do you write anything negative about a biography, especially a biography about someone who lived through WWII?

That being said - I have nothing negative to say about this book. It's very well written, and the stories that are shared throughout really let us know what it was like to have lived through this time, something that I think is very very important in this type of book - not only to know, but to feel, what the author felt. There's a quick story in the beginning about a bombing, and how her and her friend discover her friend's father is dead under a pile of debris, and that just sets the tone for the rest of the book.

I received a review copy from ? (I think the author's family, but I'm ashamed to admit I don't remember, & I can't find the original emails)