This is a powerful and moving memoir that pays tribute to love and devotion and that special bond between a mother and a daughter. Trudi Birger was literally snatched from the flames of the Holocaust. Miraculously, she was saved from death not once but dozens of times -- by her will to live, her quick wit, her self-confidence, and especially her love for her mother. It was this sense of devotion that in the end kept them both alive to see liberation from the camps and the return to freedom again.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German
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A Unique Mother-Daughter relationship.,
By "dawg235" (CT ,USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Daughter's Gift of Love: A Holocaust Memoir (Hardcover)
As a daughter of Holocaust survivors, i was touched so deeply by Ms. Birger's account of her years of chaos and persecution during those treacherous years. As a young girl in WWII, Trudi Birger could be compared to Anne Frank, in terms of her resourcefulness and wit in the face of danger and death. She and her mother protected each other in the truest sense, each one kept the other alive time and time again. Would they have been so emotionally connected in times of peace, or did this unfathemed circumstance create a unique bond between a mother and daughter that very few of us can ever understand? No matter what, the reader is deeply affected hearing story after story of how close the author and her mother comes to dying,and how they manage to defy death. Since my mom has been pretty silent about her experiences in concentration camp, I am grateful to Ms. Birger for the details. I now know why "potatoes" stir up deep feelings for my mother, that to find a potato peel in the midst of that bland soup provided by the Nazi's, was like finding a piece of gold. The examples go on and on, some too painful to discuss. Yet, this is an uplifting book because once again it shows that you can keep a person in bondage, but it is very difficult to kill the human spirit and one's basic desire to survive! This should be Oprah's next read.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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A Daughter's Gift of Love, a survival story.,
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This review is from: A Daughter's Gift of Love: A Holocaust Memoir (Hardcover)
A Daughter's Gift of Love is the amazing survival story of a young girl, her mother, and her expierence in the holocaust. The author portrays this story by the eyes of Trudi Birger, a Holocaust survivor. This is a can't put down book. Where every page there is something new, something dangerous, somthing scary going to happen; it's the truth of the Holocaust.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Unique Mother-Daughter relationship.,
By "dawg235" (CT ,USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Daughter's Gift of Love: A Holocaust Memoir (Hardcover)
As a daughter of Holocaust survivors, i was touched so deeply by Ms. Birger's account of her years of chaos and persecution during those treacherous years. As a young girl in WWII, Trudi Birger could be compared to Anne Frank, in terms of her resourcefulness and wit in the face of danger and death. She and her mother protected each other in the truest sense, each one kept the other alive time and time again. Would they have been so emotionally connected in times of peace, or did this unfathemed circumstance create a unique bond between a mother and daughter that very few of us can ever understand? No matter what, the reader is deeply affected hearing story after story of how close the author and her mother comes to dying,and how they manage to defy death. Since my mom has been pretty silent about her experiences in concentration camp, I am grateful to Ms. Birger for the details. I now know why "potatoes" stir up deep feelings for my mother, that to find a potato peel in the midst of that bland soup provided by the Nazi's, was like finding a piece of gold. The examples go on and on, some too painful to discuss. Yet, this is an uplifting book because once again it shows that you can keep a person in bondage, but it is very difficult to kill the human spirit and one's basic desire to survive! This should be Oprah's next read.
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