Menucha Meinstein - My eyes looking back at me : insight into a survivors soul

It has a Bashevis Singer or even Dylan Thomas-like quality to it. This is an essential read to comprehend those times so that it can be passed on from generation to generation.

Alan Freeman , Vice President, Jerusalem Foundation - Jerusalem, Israel

Luckily for humanity, Leah Cik Roth met Menucha Meinstein, who was able to elicit and express the extraordinary courage and perseverance in one Survivors tale, as an example to the world of the meaning of LIFE! Remember Forever!!!

Avi Hoffman , Entertainer, child of Survivors and Director of the Dachau Album Project - Coral Springs, FL

I will be recommending this memoir to all students of the Nazi Holocaust of 1933-1945 as a primary resource, whether they be high school students, college students, or scholars and professors. It must be read and reread and retold for future generations.

Miriam Klein Kassenoff, Ph.D., University of Miami Coral Gables, FL, Director, Holocaust Studies Summer Institute/School of Education, District Education Specialist/Holocaust Education, Miami-Dade County Public Schools/Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial

At the age of nineteen the same age Leah was when she fought for her life in Auschwitz I was denouncing the atrocities of the Holocaust. I denied that Survivors like Leah existed....Menuchas beautiful prose combined with Leahs raw account of being a Holocaust Survivor make this work a compelling personal narrative ... It has freed me from the prison in my soul.

Angela King, M.A ., Former Skinhead; Editor-In-Chief, Life After Hate , Specialist: Violent Extremism - Miami, FL

... told beautifully and with great compassion ... unique in the galaxy of holocaust memoirs ... the portrait of an era ...an invaluable tool in a renewed approach to education for our time.

Joyce Klein , Educator, Storyteller, & Playwright - Jerusalem, Israel

... a page-turner, a tear jerker; a true Kafka-like story so true that it couldnt be written as fiction.

Joseph Lebovic, Ph.D. (h.c.) Humanitarian and Philanthropist, President, Lebovic Enterprises, Ltd., BILD Lifetime Achievement Award; Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Jewish Community Campus - Toronto, Canada

To those who care and those who need to care. Together they have created a manuscript that is truly Theater of the Mind.

Arnold Mittelman , President/Producing Artistic Director, National Jewish Theater Foundation - Coral Gables, FL

...a must-read, for to be moved to action one needs to be moved emotionally....eye opening, sometimes heartbreaking and other times inspiring....alive with the colour of emotion. From Survivors of the Holocaust and also from Survivors of genocides from Rwanda and Cambodia, I am struck by the similarities in their experiences as they are from different times, continents and cultures ...message of hope and the importance of understanding and tolerance... the power of positivity.

Maurice Ostro, OBE, KFO , Prime Ministers Holocaust Commission, Vice-Chairman, Council of Christians and Jews - United Kingdom

Leah and her progeny are the victors, not the vanquished...a testimony of historical and personal endurance that must be told again and again.

Wendy Reiss Rothfield, MSW, LCSW - Aventura, FL

... an act of love, combined with exquisite writing... Menucha turned Leahs rough-hewn, untold story into a powerful work of art ... At times it reminds me of Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Yiddish Nobel Prize winner, at times of the beautiful prose of Elie Wiesel ... stands out, not only for the beauty and clarity of the writing, but for how it finds an indelible mark on the readers heart.

Roberta Shapiro, M.ED., LCSW, NBCCH , Creator and author, The Calming Collection - Miami Beach, FL

Your visit to the Memorial...is well written, moving, poignant and sad....I will remember it, for it reinforces my original commitment to make the Memorial a sacred place.

Kenneth Treister , Architect, Sculptor, and Author, A Sculpture of Love and Anguish, Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial - Winterhaven, FL.

Permit me to express my words of appreciation for the mitzvah you have performed by producing this manuscript. As Rabbi Klein writes in his eloquent introduction, so many survivors will soon disappear without having left their stories recorded. You have made sure that Leah is not among them. For that, I feel that I, and the Jewish people, owe you a debt of gratitude. Yasher Koach.

Peter Weisz , Peter Weisz Publishing - Boca Raton, FL

...she enables others to enter into the pain and ongoing history of her family during the Holocaust within the wider context of the world and a unique biblical people going back millennia....helped teach the world a lesson about what can happen when we do not remain vigilant and true to our highest and best selves as all children of God.

The Reverend Dr. Priscilla Felisky Whitehead , Minister Emerita, The Church by the Sea (United Church of Christ) - Bal Harbour, FL

My Eyes Looking Back at Me: Insight Into a Survivors Soul

Copyright 2014 Menucha Meinstein

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