rosewise5171964 's review for:

5.0

This is an unusual Holocaust memoir. She survived Auschwitz at age 16, while her parents were killed immediately, but she remembers her parents - and the two sisters who survive with her - authentically, not as saints. She is a protege of Victor Frankl and embraces the same idea - that the one freedom no one can take away from us is how we respond to events. I’m sure it says a lot about me, that i have trouble with that idea. But I was more inspired than discouraged by her account