This book brings to light women’s Experiences in the Holocaust.
Her mother struggled to keep her safe in the mayhem of the Budapest Ghetto when she was a tiny baby and dealt with the threat from Russian soldiers after the liberation of Budapest in January 1945..
Their varied Experiences represent the extremities of human suffering, endeavour and courage.
The author herself is a survivor, born in 1944.
Some young girls acted as Kashariyot, underground couriers between ghettos.
Dr Gisella Perl was a doctor in Auschwitz under the infamous Dr Mengele.
Many women wrote diaries, memoirs, letters and books about their Experiences and these have been used extensively here.
The accounts include women who fought or worked in the resistance, like Zivia Lubetkin who was part of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
They had to face pregnancies, abortions and, in some camps, medical experiments.
The often desperate hunt for food for themselves and those in their care more often than not fell to the women, as did medical issues.
Women like Andrew Sachs\' mother had to deal with organising departure for a foreign country and making choices about what to take and what to abandon.
Men were taken away and the women were left to cope with children and elderly relatives and obliged to take on new roles.
It explains why women’s difficulties were different to those of men.
This book brings to light women’s Experiences in the Holocaust
