I Have to Survive  Miriam Garvil's Story (Volume 1)
Miriam Garvil was born in Lodz, Poland on May 23, 1921. In 1938, she and her family were forced to leave Lodz to escape the Nazis. At age 18, she jumped from a train that brought her mother and sister to their deaths. She managed to survive through three concentration camps until liberation by the British at Bergen Belsen in 1945. She married her husband, Julian, in Paris. They later moved to New York with their young son and then in 1977 the moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan to be close to their son who was working at General Motors. Miriam is still living in Ann Arbor.