Destined to survive: Uplifting stories from the worst of times (ArtScroll history series)
by Israel I. Cohen
Category: Holocaust survivors

Memoirs of a Jew born ca. 1925 in Łódź to a hasidic family. Relates his experiences in the Holocaust, stressing his efforts to observe religious practices whenever possible. He and his family were interned for four years in the Łódź ghetto, where his father died of starvation. In summer 1944 the family was deported to Auschwitz, where his mother was immediately gassed. Cohen was sent to the Kaufering labor camp, where he was liberated. In 1946 his younger sister, Mirel, was killed by antisemites in Łódź; his elder sister, Gittel, perished in the Holocaust. After the war Cohen lived in Switzerland; he married and in 1951 immigrated to Canada.