Hope is the Last to Die: A Coming of Age Under Nazi Terror / Edition 1

by Halina Birenbaum, David Welsh

Overview

This book is an important work in Holocaust literature and was originally published in Poland in 1967. Covering the years 1939-1945, it is the author's account of her experience growing up in the Warsaw ghetto and her eventual deportation to, imprisonment in, and survival of the Majdanek, Auschwitz, Ravensbruck, and Neustadt-Glewe camps. Since the old, the weak, and children were summarily executed by the Nazis in these camps, Mrs Birenbaum's survival and coming of age is all the more remarkable. Her story is told with simplicity and clarity and the new edition contains revisions made by the author to the original English translation, and is expanded with a new epilogue and postscripts that bring the story up to date and complete the circle of Mrs Birenbaum's experiences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781563247477
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/31/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	216
Sales rank:	698,026
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1030L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Halina Birenbaum, David Welsh

Table of Contents

Chapter Conclusion ; Chapter Epilogue ; Journey into the Past, Poland 1986 /; of that journey, she revisits familiar;

Editorial Reviews

Anne Frank, Hannah Senesch and Halina Birenbaum are a representative triumvirate of innocent Jewish girlhood faced with a nightmare worse than any adolescent fantasy.

American Zionist

This is a book that must be read.

Hadassah Magazine