Out on a Ledge: Enduring the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and Beyond
(Eva's) journey was long and painful, but its telling is honest and piercing, unsentimental and yet deeply moving. --MICHAEL BERENBAUM, Founding Director United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Professorof Theology, American Jewish University...a richly nuanced book that demonstrates her strength, courage, and luck during the Final Solution and her resiliency. We are lucky to have it. --DEBORAH E. LIPSTADT, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies, Emory University; author of History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust DenierEva Libitzky s personal story of a teenaged Chasidic daughter who survives the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and other Nazi German concentration camps opens a valuable window with frank discussion of the traumas and stresses of suffering and survival. Co-author Fred Rosenbaum s research and extensive interviews with Eva and other survivors flesh out and detail her recollections. The memoir concludes with the moving struggle to build a new life in freedom in America. --ROBERT MOSES SHAPIRO, Professor of Judaic Studies, Brooklyn College; translator and editor of Isaiah Trunk s authoritative Lodz Ghetto: A History...a richly nuanced book that demonstrates her strength, courage, and luck during the Final Solution and her resiliency. We are lucky to have it. --DEBORAH E. LIPSTADT, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies, Emory University; author of History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust DenierEva Libitzky s personal story of a teenaged Chasidic daughter who survives the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and other Nazi German concentration camps opens a valuable window with frank discussion of the traumas and stresses of suffering and survival. Co-author Fred Rosenbaum s research and extensive interviews with Eva and other survivors flesh out and detail her recollections. The memoir concludes with the moving struggle to build a new life in freedom in America. --ROBERT MOSES SHAPIRO, Professor of Judaic Studies, Brooklyn College; translator and editor of Isaiah Trunk s authoritative Lodz Ghetto: A History