Tova (who has gone through a few name changes through her life) was very, very young when she was first living in the ghetto in Poland and spent most of her childhood in concentration camps.
The book is written in an easy to read manner. The horrors this child went through were so difficult for me to wrap my head around. Thinking about children today, I can't really imagine most of them able to stay quiet/hidden/still for an entire day.
Sometimes I wonder about Tova's memory when it comes to those really early years, but I don't have any really traumatic events to compare. I do notice especially happy and tragic things are easier to remember, so I can't say for sure. It's just hard to accept that level of detail from a child that young after so many years. I'm not saying it didn't happen - I'm wondering how accurate the memories are.
I commend Tova for her willpower and bravery. I admire anyone who had the courage to not only make it through the Holocaust, but to also relive those events so future generations can learn from the past. A fair amount of this book deals with Tova's life after being freed from the camp, and I always appreciate when these memoirs include that time of the subject's life. It's important to realize that freedom from the camps wasn't the end of these stories.
This was a good book, and one of the better Holocaust survivor stories I've read. Good Book!
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