Ruth's Journey: A Survivor's Memoir [Hardcover]

Ruth Glasberg Gold (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1996

"A dramatic journey from a nightmarish childhood in a Romanian concentration camp to the adult's painful fight for a meaningful existence. An impressive document of human resilience, a luminous portrait of a never embittered survivor, gifted with an exact

"Honest and brave. A monument to the dead of Transnistria, to a black mark in history and to an enduring spirit."-- Miami Herald

Ruth Gold proves that the heart broken into a thousand pieces can be broken yet more....Read this book: it is filled with the stubborn light of the(barely describable)truth.--Andrei Codrescu, author of The Blood Countess

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

YA?An excellent title for YAs interested in or required to read about the Holocaust. With the onset of World War II, 11-year-old Ruth Glasberg changed from being a happy and prosperous child to becoming her family's lone survivor within a few months. As she grew and continued to survive in Nazi-controlled Europe, she began to believe the real punishment was to continue living. She describes existence in the concentration camps of Transnistria, rescue failures, and ultimately freedom in Palestine. She tells of how she felt as a child, and brings in what she, as an adult, now knows as truth regarding the events that overtook her young life. The author takes her story beyond the Holocaust, and includes her experiences in the newly formed nation of Israel. Family photographs appear throughout.?Beth Devers, Fairfax County Public Library, VA
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 293 pages
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Florida (February 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 081301400X
• ISBN-13: 978-0813014005
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,644,466 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars I will Read this book more than once., June 18, 2009

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contractors school "Iggity" (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ruth's Journey: A Survivor's Memoir (Hardcover)

I was fortunate to hear her speak in Hollywood Florida this year (2009); at the Holocaust Memorial. She signed her book for me for which I am forever grateful. Her words are also in the Children Who Survived the Final Solution -edited by Peter Tarjan. Most of those former children live in the Miami Area.

Strictly as a writer she brings her experiences to life as much as that is possible...I am reminded of Pulitzer prize winners when i read her words. And too, her willingness to delve so deep into her own nightmare and share in such candor. I will probably buy more copies to share with my friends and family. Anyone would be touched...enriched...by reading this.

5.0 out of 5 stars A Survivor's Memoir, June 27, 2006

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Michael Hadar "Mhadar" (Florida , USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ruth's Journey: A Survivor's Memoir (Hardcover)

I hope that any one that relly like to understad a jurney of life has to read it... life will look in other color at the end of the book. Good for the soul

5.0 out of 5 stars Words that replace markers and tombstones, April 16, 2005

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Ariel J. Preminger (Calabasas, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ruth's Journey: A Survivor's Memoir (Paperback)

Ms.Glasberg has had the courage to dig and relive her unspeakably hellish past. She has performed an everlasting act of kindness by giving thousands of Jews murdered, some sort of dignity. So many of them whithout even a marking to attest that once, not long ago they were part of families and communities full of life. May their memories live forever. As a decendant of a family from the Jewish Community in Chernowitz this book has taught me much of what became of my extended family back then.