To Life - Softcover

Sender, Ruth Minsky

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0689832826 ISBN 13: 9780689832826

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2000

Synopsis

"WE ARE FREE!"
When Russian soldiers liberate Grafenort, the Nazi labor camp where she is a prisoner, nineteen-year-old Riva discovers that liberation doesn't mean the end of her hardship and suffering.
Cold and starving, threatened with rape by the same Russian soldiers who were her saviors, Riva makes her way to her old home in Poland, searching like so many others for family who may have survived. Strengthened by her mother's credo, as long as there is life, there is hope, and by the promise of a new love and a new life, Riva endures the long years of waiting for real freedom and a real home.
Picking up where her acclaimed memoir The Cage leaves off, Ruth Minsky Sender has written another inspirational document of the power of hope and love over unspeakable cruelty.

About this title

About the Author

Ruth Minsky Sender (1926–2024) was a Holocaust survivor who went on to become an author and teacher of Jewish culture and history specializing in the Holocaust. The Cage was her first memoir; she was also the author of To Life and The Holocaust Lady.

From the Back Cover

"WE ARE FREE!"

When Russian soldiers liberate Grafenort, the Nazi labor camp where she is a prisoner, nineteen-year-old Riva discovers that liberation doesn't mean the end of her hardship and suffering.

Cold and starving, threatened with rape by the same Russian soldiers who were her saviors, Riva makes her way to her old home in Poland, searching like so many others for family who may have survived. Strengthened by her mother's credo, as long as there is life, there is hope, and by the promise of a new love and a new life, Riva endures the long years of waiting for real freedom and a real home.

Picking up where her acclaimed memoir The Cage leaves off, Ruth Minsky Sender has written another inspirational document of the power of hope and love over unspeakable cruelty.

Reviews

This sequel to The Cage follows the author after her liberation from a Nazi concentration camp. Despite flaws with the pacing, PW said, "As testament to the human spirit, this memoir shines." Ages 12-up. (Mar.) n
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Edition details

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0689832826
• ISBN 13: 9780689832826
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Illustrator: Coon Jim
• Number of pages: 240