Description
How will one girl survive the horrors of Auschwitz on her own? Poland, 1944. The train slowed and halted with a squeal of the brakes. It felt as though they waited in the carriage for an eternity; eventually the heavy doors opened into the chaos outside. Sara Leibovits, a sixteen-year-old Jewish girl, was a passenger on the train with her family. Within minutes their horrific fate was sealed. The little family spent its final moments together on the platform at Auschwitz before its members were dispersed in all directions and each was left to their own fate. Isolated from her family, Sara faced brutal physical labor and the lowest points of her life while trying to maintain values of courage, faith, and helping others to survive the true manifestation of hell on earth—Auschwitz. This is the moving story of Sara Leibovits, laced with hair-raising descriptions of her time in Auschwitz and the incredible pain and hardships she endured, together with the rest of the survivors. Her story is intertwined with that of her daughter, seventy years later, who embodies the voice of the second generation and completes the Holocaust survivors' tale.