Hello friends, I have a request for a specific Holocaust book based on the following description. Thanks for any help. -Susan
"I have a question... I'm trying to find a book that I once read and no amount of Google searches are bringing it up. Wondering if you might be able to help. It was a book about a young girl (and her mother). I believe the dad and brother were never seen again, are sent to a concentration camp, I think in Germany. Something about this book really stuck with me. I read it in 1992 where I picked it up from the library at the Stanford in Berlin campus. it wasn't a long book as I recall. I am going to Auschwitz in May and I wanted to re-read this book. The details that I can remember is that it was a detailed account of her day to day life in the camp and how she survived. She did this by putting multiple women in a bunk and sleeping very close together for warmth, mixing their urine with breakfast mush to try to make it palatable, and in her case, she was a "member" of two different cabins that were on two schedules. She was starving and then figured out that when her cabin was going out to the fields to work, she could somehow get her name on the roster of another cabin that was just coming in to sleep. Thus she was in two cabins that were resting and none that were working. Her mother was possibly a nurse assistant that worked with the doctors there (and saw very horrible things). One of them also worked sorting out the discarded clothes of people who went to the showers so they somehow got a coat. I also remember parts about how some of the people were "rats" for the Nazis and would turn fellow Jews in. And that the "leader" of her cabin somehow figured out how to meet up with her boyfriend. For the life of me I can't remember how it ends. If you have any thoughts on this or any ideas on how to figure out what book it was, I'd love to re-read it." Susan Kusel Librarian Temple Rodef Shalom 2100 Westmoreland Street Falls Church, VA 22043 (703) 676-3851 sku...@templerodefshalom.org<mailto:sku...@templerodefshalom.org>
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