Living Among the Dead
by Adena Bernstein Astrowsky
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Pub Date Mar 03 2020 | Archive Date Aug 06 2020
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Description
This is the story of one young woman's unimaginable journey through the rise of the Nazi regime, the Second World War, and the aftermath. Mania Lichtenstein’s dramatic story of survival is narrated by her granddaughter and her memories are interwoven with beautiful passages of poetry and personal reflection. Holocaust survivor Mania Lichtenstein used writing as a medium to deal with the traumatic effects of the war. Many Jews did not die in concentration camps, but were murdered in their lifelong communities, slaughtered by mass killing units, and then buried in pits. As a young girl, Mania witnessed the horrors while doing everything within her power to subsist. She lived in Włodzimierz,n orth of Lvov (Ukraine), was interned for three years in the labor camp nearby, managed to escape and hid in the forests until the end of the war. Although she was the sole survivor of her family, Mania went on to rebuild a new life in the United States, with a new language and new customs, always carrying with her the losses of her family and her memories. Seventy-five years after liberation, we are still witnessing acts of cruelty born out of hatred and discrimination. Living among the Dead reminds us of the beautiful communities that existed before WWII, the lives lost and those that lived on, and the importance to never forget these stories so that history does not repeat itself.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9789493056374 |
| PRICE | $3.99 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Michelle K, Reviewer
Living among the Dead:
My Grandmother’s Holocaust Survival Story of Love and Strength
Amsterdam Publishers
(May 9, 2020)
I am reviewing a copy of Living among the Dead through Amsterdam Publishers and Netgalley:
Living Among the Dead is Adena Bernstein Astrowsky’s loving and careful reflection of passages from her grandmother’s private journal that Mania Lichtenstein kept as a way of coping with the memories of what she’d survived in World War II.
Living Among the Dead is the story of Mania, the sole Holocaust Survivor or her family. She adored her sisters and had to read whatever it was they were reading.
At a young age in life, Mania was left alone, in a room full of strangers, they would eventually liberate themselves. Out of the 26,000 people who lived in Włodzimierz, Wolynski, Mania estimated that only fifteen to twenty youth had survived.
Mania would later come to America and build a family, making sure that her Children and Grandchildren did not forget there history.
I give Living Among the Dead five out of five stars!
Happy Reading!
Diana P, Reviewer
A compelling story about a young woman's life during the Holocaust as told through the eyes of her granddaughter. Stirring and emotional. Fantastic. Thank you NetGalley for allowing me tp review this book.
Julie l, Reviewer
A beautiful, poignant, and heartbreaking account of Mania Lichtenstein's recollections and memories of surviving the Holocaust and multiple "pogroms". Compiled with patience and love, this book is written by the Mania's granddaughter, Adena Bernstein Astrowsky , and takes readers thru "Bubbie's" recollection of growing up pre-Holocaust, and then her terrifying survival throughout the Holocaust at the hands of her Nazi captors. Book includes poems and writings by Mania herself - beautiful reflections on a life aimed at surviving during a bleak and desolate time, but a life well lived after finding freedom. Must read reading for all, as we should always remember those who were killed by Hitler and to never let this happen again in our future.
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