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Mama, I don’t want to live like this,” pleaded twelve-year-old Estelle Glaser’s older sister as they watched the bodies of friends dangle from the gibbet in the center of Warsaw’s Apel Platz. “I cannot take the indignities and brutalities. Let’s step forward and make them kill us now.” But Estelle’s mother fiercely responded to her two daughters: “No! Life is sacred. It is noble to fight to stay alive.” Their mother’s indomitable will was a major factor in the trio’s survival in the face of brutal odds. Estelle’s memoir, published sixty-four years after their liberation from the concentration camp, is a narrative of fear and hope and resiliency. While it is a harrowing tale of destruction and loss, it is also a story of the goodness that still exists in a dark world.

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This brutally frank and heart-wrenching memoir of a child survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto tells the story of a girl who never gave up her belief in humanity despite an intensely difficult struggle for survival. . . . Told in colorful prose and with powerful detail, this intensely personal Holocaust story brings history to life in the way only a first-person account can. Family photosgrace the book, showing the reader the faces of Laughlin's closest relatives. . . . Laughlin allows the reader into her secret thoughts while incarcerated and opens her heart after she is liberated. Through her emigration to America, two marriages, three children, and several grandchildren, she shows us how an indomitable spirit such as hers can overcome even the worst that humankind can conjure up in order to destroy us.-Jewish Book Council A moving account . . . bracingly intimate and heartfelt.-Kirkus Reviews The best written Holocaust memoir I have come across in twenty-five years.-Alan Adelson, executive director, Jewish Heritage

This brutally frank and heart-wrenching memoir of a child survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto tells the story of a girl who never gave up her belief in humanity despite an intensely difficult struggle for survival... Told in colorful prose and with powerful detail, this intensely personal Holocaust story brings history to life in the way only a first-person account can. Family photosgrace the book, showing the reader the faces of Laughlin's closest relatives... Laughlin allows the reader into her secret thoughts while incarcerated and opens her heart after she is liberated. Through her emigration to America, two marriages, three children, and several grandchildren, she shows us how an indomitable spirit such as hers can overcome even the worst that humankind can conjure up in order to destroy us.-Jewish Book Council A moving account ... bracingly intimate and heartfelt.-Kirkus Reviews The best written Holocaust memoir I have come across in twenty-five years.-Alan Adelson, executive director, Jewish Heritage

This brutally frank and heart-wrenching memoir of a child survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto tells the story of a girl who never gave up her belief in humanity despite an intensely difficult struggle for survival. . . . Told in colorful prose and with powerful detail, this intensely personal Holocaust story brings history to life in the way only a first-person account can. Family photosgrace the book, showing the reader the faces of Laughlin’s closest relatives. . . . Laughlin allows the reader into her secret thoughts while incarcerated and opens her heart after she is liberated. Through her emigration to America, two marriages, three children, and several grandchildren, she shows us how an indomitable spirit such as hers can overcome even the worst that humankind can conjure up in order to destroy us.—Jewish Book Council A moving account . . . bracingly intimate and heartfelt.—Kirkus Reviews The best written Holocaust memoir I have come across in twenty-five years.—Alan Adelson, executive director, Jewish Heritage

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Estelle Glaser Laughlin, a child survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, the Uprising, and concentration camps, immigrated to America at eighteen. With only three years of public school education, she earned a master’s degree in education. After retirement from a long career in teaching in Maryland, she has continued to write and lecture widely about her experience and survival.

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