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The Survivor in Us All: Four Young Sisters in the Holocaust

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The Survivor In Us All, by Erna F. Rubinstein, was a great book about the Holocaust. It told the dramatic story through a teenage girl's point of view. She, along with her four sisters, dad, mom, and brother, had to try to stay together and support each other in order to survive and remain hopeful. The book, through great detail, explains what happened in the concentration camps and the hardships the family went through. The family had to suffer through multiple camps and near death experiences, in which only the author survived.
The author explains not only the physical hardships that the victims had to endure but also the mental ones. The author tells about how hard trying to grow up and mature is, while being contained and restricted. Another thing the author realized was, when she found love in one of the camps there was no guarantee that she would ever see that man again. That made her very cautious because she didn't want to have even more sorrow while she was struggling to survive.
The book not only captured your heart through what the people had to endure, but the book takes you to the site of where everything is taking place and makes you feel as if you are there. The book contains great detail and is very descriptive. The great detail in the book encourages the reader to continue reading and makes them wonder what will happen next and who will survive. I would recommend this book to anyone who wanted to learn about the Holocaust because it tells the story through a weak awkward teenage girl trying to discover who she is while growing up. This book would get four out of five stars because some parts were boring while most of the book was very vivid and expressive.

The book "The Survivor In Us All" was a heart-filled story written by Erna F. Rubinstein. She was a teenager during the Holocaust. Erna and her family were sent to many different concentration camps. This book helps you understand the reality of the camps. Her writing in the book was very descriptive. At times her writing was so detailed that it felt like you were right there with her. She opens up her heart in the book and her true feelings show through. I recommend this book to anyone interested in reading about true stories of Holocaust survivors. I really enjoyed this book.

I thought the book "The Survivor In Us All", by Erna F. Rubinstein was a very good book. On a scale of one to ten, I would give this book a eight. The reason I would give this book an eight, is because I thought at some points of the book it needed to be told in more detail, so you understood what was being talked about. I particularly liked the fact that this book was told from the viewpoint of a teenage female, because it showed me how I might have acted if the things in the book would have happened to me. I thought that this book was very emotional. Some parts of "The Survivor In Us All" I really felt like I was there, because of the rich writting. This book really changed the way I think about some things. It also helped me understand a little bit more about how horrible the Holocaust really was. I encourage both males and females to read this book. Once again this book is a very good book!

When I was a student at Syracuse U in 1976, I took Mrs. Rubinstein's course on the Holocaust. We became friendly and she offered me the type-written draft of her book to read. I thought it was very good, but she told me that she was having a hard time finding a publisher because, after 30 years of reluctance to tell their painful stories, there were many Holocaust survivor stories being submitted.

It only recently occured to me to do a web search. I was saddened to read that Erna Rubinstein had passed away in 2000, but was pleased to see that her book had indeed been published (in 1983) and she received the recognition that she deserved for her efforts to educate people on the horrors that were inflicted upon Europe's Jewish population by the Nazis.I immediately ordered from an Amazon Seller.

I would suggest this book to anyone...especially younger people...who seeks to be educated about this awful period. If Ann Frank had survived (they were about the same age),this is the story she might have told. It is simply written but will grip you until the end.