num_pages: 214
description: A young Jewish woman who wanted to be a lawyer. A Nazi regime determined to exterminate all European Jews. Forced to wash German uniforms or starve, Lena's turn to face death came. Lena didn't want to die. With her parents already murdered at Treblinka and the Nazis deciding she was next, the young Polish woman hid beneath a pile of German uniforms and prayed for deliverance. Convinced it was only a matter of time before they came for her again, the brave girl resolved that if she was doomed anyway, she would meet death as a member of the resistance." The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising saw the flower of Jewish youth extinguished as they stood up to the stormtroopers. By a miracle, Lena escaped the ghetto before it became an inferno. But where could she hide? Facing death was hard enough but could she face life in a flee-ridden underground hole where she couldn’t stand, couldn’t wash and was starving? Finally, when it was over and she could walk free, the tears she had held back flooded out because she was all alone and there was no one to care that she had survived and no one to go to. Author Barbara Miller adds to Holocaust history and WW2 history by skillfully weaving her research with Lena's diary and interviews to bring her biography to life. Lena turned 100 in January 2019 and her miraculous story of survival against the odds will inspire you to not give up no matter how dark the time or difficult the situation or cruel the people around you. If I Survive is a heartbreaking but inspiring biography about the strength of the human spirit to not only survive but thrive. If you like true stories of the triumph of the human spirit, courage in the face of danger and helping others at great risk, then you will love Barbara Miller's extraordinary story of Lena's survival.This is a compelling, indeed exemplary work, that merges the history of the Holocaust with the live story of one Lena Goldstein, aged 100, one of the last living witnesses to the horrors of the Holocaust. This is a truly beautiful collaboration between the author and her subject, who have together produced an invaluable documentation of a unique, moving, life story set against the backdrop of one of the darkest moments in human history. To read "If I Survive" is to meet a remarkable person and to be touched by her intense humanity in an inhuman world. It is not often that you commence a book and feel compelled to continue reading until it is finished. Such is the power of “If I Nazi Germany and the Jews” by Barbara Miller. It should be compulsory reading for all students so they can live the concept - “Never Again”.
language: English
title: If I Survive: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 100-Year Old Lena Goldstein's Miracle Story
publisher: Barbara Miller Books