Marianna S. (Angeloudi) reviewed on 7/18/2009 + 160 more book reviews

This is one of the most detailed accounts of survival through the death camps of the Holocaust that I have read. It details life in pre-war Romania and Hungary, and the slow, insiduous reach of the Nazi tentacles into the lives of Jewish citizens of those countries. Seren Tuvel survives the hardships and starvation of Ravensbruck concentration camp. What I found illuminating was the fact that the level of starvation endured by the female inmates of Ravensbruck far outdistanced that suffered by long-lasting survivors from parts of Auschwicz. From other accounts of Auschwicz, the Jews of that camp were extremely poorly treated. This book tells the story without rancor or hatred, in complete detail.

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