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Title: Thanks to My Mother by Shoshanah Rabinovici, James Skofield ISBN: 0-14-130596-7 Publisher: Puffin Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Courage to Live
Comment: This book is a compelling story about a girl who lives through the Holocaust. It really is her mother who pushes Susie along throughout the book. Some other people, old and young, had helped the Jews and told them what they could do to help themselves stay alive. When a selection was made in a Christian Cemetery in Rossa, the Jewish women saw three young people running along the top of the wall. As Susie remembers, "This is what the young people had meant: the young people who had warned us and who had died on the wall for us. They had shouted, "Jews, go to the right." They meant: on the right side is life." Susie's mother, Raja, had told Susie many very important sayings about how to survive the Kaiserwald camp. When Raja was sick, Susie was only 9 years old and she had to live without her mother or anyone watching over her. She began to gradually give up, and her personal and mental appearance had gone downhill. When she visited her mother in the sick house, Raja saw her and exclaimed, "Mussulman!" This made Susie change her condition and get it back to where it was before she got sick. During this incident she remembers, "Throughout our time in the ghetto and in the camp, my mother had always said you couldn't neglect yourself, that you always had to believe that one day your troubles would pass. If you gave up, it was a waste of all the trouble you had already endured. You had to look after your appearance and must not become a Mussulman." This was probably the most important saying Susie learned throughout her stay at the camp. I encourage everyone and anyone to read this book. It gives you a new outlook on life and makes you think about your outlook on life. When the camp was liberated, all the horrors of Susie's life during the Holocaust were imprinted in her memory forever.
Rating: 4
Summary: Thanks To My Mother
Comment: The eye-opening story Thanks to My Mother, written by Susie Weskler, is a true outlook on the hardships Susie and her mother Raja endured for the three years in Nazi concentration camps. When reading Susie's story, I sometimes had to remind myself that this was actually happening to real people. It turns my stomach how cruel human beings can be.
If someone is interested in World War II and what was happening to innocent people beyond the front line, then this book will be a good choice. If family history, anger, suspense, or violence interests you, then Thanks to My Mother would be a book to read. They story of her life has made a huge scar that will never go away, but she lives on, and it shows in her writing.
Rating: 4
Summary: Thanks To My Mother
Comment: Thanks To My Mother is a heart-wrenching, sad story of a young girl, Susie Weksler, and her family in the Holocaust. Together, they faced the horrors of prejudice and hate, being forced to live in a ghetto. The family survived the ghetto, living through a series of "actions", selections of various groups of people sent to their death. Soon, togther with other survivors, they were seperated and sent to various concentration camps. Susie remained with her mother, who succeeded in smuggling in Susie, who was hidden in a knapsack. Miraculously, the two survived the terrors of Kaiserwald, mostly thanks to the wisdom and courage of Raja, the mother. Raja protected and cared for Susie, at the risk of being killed at the camps they were sent to. Together, they endured the abuse, the malnurishment, and the worst- the death march. I read on, captivated by the horrific details of the concentration camps. This was an extremely moving book, and I couldn't put it down, although it took a while to get into. It gave me a better understanding of the Holocaust. All in all, it's one of the best books I have read.
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Title: I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson ISBN: 0689823959 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust by Jacob Boas ISBN: 059084475X Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story by Lila Perl ISBN: 0380731886 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 09 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Final Journey by Gudrun Pausewang, Patricia Crampton ISBN: 014130104X Publisher: Puffin Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Boys: The Untold Story of 732 Young Concentration Camp Survivors by Martin Gilbert ISBN: 0805044035 Publisher: Owl Books (NY) Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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