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Staying silent meant staying alive during the six years Krisia spent in ghettos and concentration camps After surviving the Holocaust, she would remain silent for the rest of her life For nine-year-old Krisia, who was swept into the whirlwind horrors of the Holocaust, life was hanging by a thread on a daily basis. For six torturous years, she was forced to live at the mercy of her Nazi tormentors. Life at Płaszów camp, one of the three camps where she was imprisoned, was harrowing - especially for such a young child. The food was scarce and torture and death were the daily norms. At Płaszów, several members of her family managed to buy their freedom, ending up on the list of factory director Oskar Schindler. Both Krisia and her mother, however, were left out from Schindler’s list after an uncle of theirs refused to pay the price for their freedom. Her unwavering silence kept the young girl alive. This is the tender, moving story of unconditional love from a son, the author, to his mother, offering an intimate look into the lives of people who had to deal with an abominable past while finding the necessary strength to move forward.

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"This is an excellent book, and example of the evolution of Holocaust memoirs we are beginning to see. These accounts, written by second generation survivors will have new insights on recovery and effects on survivors and families. A picture of a women's barracks at Bergin-Belsen is one I've known of for years and I've looked at it often, scanning their faces, imaging their lives and feelings. I was thrilled to see this picture in this book and to find that Krisia was among those familiar faces. I highlighted the author's expression of anger, ""I'm putting a dose of anger in the glass next to my computer, and I will draw on it to continue..."" Unlike so many of the survivors themselves who are mostly forward moving and positive, the second generation feels the anger. I usually feel anger in the mix of emotions after I read an account of the Holocaust as well. The author, then, surely does and he conveys it movingly. There's so much to learn in these second generation memoirs. Recovery, forgiveness, anger, survival...I'm looking forward to reading more of these accounts. - Dianne This story of the Holocaust has given me much more I formation than I've found before. The pain, confinement, death ... The loss of family.. This is so very sad. You also got into what being a survivor means. There is no forgetting. We talk about forgiveness.. As Active Rolan Catholic we were taught to forgive. The God forgives. But is it possible? My father's family came to America in the early 1900s. But I was told we had many Jewish relations min Croatia who died in the Holocaust.. I wish I knew their names.. But I pray for them. Forgiveness is not easy. Thank you for this story.. Lesson. I hope one day the world can be free of hate. We see it somewhere every day. I pray I see a world of no hate in my lifetimes... God Bless you!!! - Chris Hofmeister"

This is an excellent book, and example of the evolution of Holocaust memoirs we are beginning to see. These accounts, written by second generation survivors will have new insights on recovery and effects on survivors and families. A picture of a women's barracks at Bergin-Belsen is one I've known of for years and I've looked at it often, scanning their faces, imaging their lives and feelings. I was thrilled to see this picture in this book and to find that Krisia was among those familiar faces. I highlighted the author's expression of anger, I'm putting a dose of anger in the glass next to my computer, and I will draw on it to continue... Unlike so many of the survivors themselves who are mostly forward moving and positive, the second generation feels the anger. I usually feel anger in the mix of emotions after I read an account of the Holocaust as well. The author, then, surely does and he conveys it movingly. There's so much to learn in these second generation memoirs. Recovery, forgiveness, anger, survival...I'm looking forward to reading more of these accounts. - Dianna This story of the Holocaust has given me much more I formation than I've found before. The pain, confinement, death ... The loss of family.. This is so very sad. You also got into what being a survivor means. There is no forgetting. We talk about forgiveness.. As Active Rolan Catholic we were taught to forgive. The God forgives. But is it possible? My father's family came to America in the early 1900s. But I was told we had many Jewish relations min Croatia who died in the Holocaust.. I wish I knew their names.. But I pray for them. Forgiveness is not easy. Thank you for this story.. Lesson. I hope one day the world can be free of hate. We see it somewhere every day. I pray I see a world of no hate in my lifetimes... God Bless you!!! - Chris Hofmeister

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Ronny Hein is a writer, journalist and publicist. He was born in Brazil in 1955, ten years after the end of the Second World War. He is the son and son-in-law of concentration camp survivors. The stories of both his mother and father-in-law, among others, are told in this eleventh book. Six of which have been published in Brazil. As a journalist, he worked in television, radio and on newspapers and principally, magazines. He was a Director of the Brazilian edition of FORBES for four years, the Sunday magazine of the Jornal do Brasil and a number of others. His field of expertise, however, was in creating and directing travel magazines like Viagem e Turismo, Próxima Viagem, Caminhos da Terra, Top Destinos and Lonely Planet Brasil. In this role he had the opportunity to visit and write about 82 different countries. As a publicist he was a copywriter at Delta Propaganda and a partner at Sven Hein & Associados Propaganda, both in São Paulo. He has been awarded a number of prizes throughout his career, eight of which were from the European Tourism Commission. He also received a gold medal of merit from the French government for his contribution to publishing about tourism in France.

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