Barbara Miller - If I Survive: Nazi Germany and the Jews: 100-Year Old Lena Goldsteins Miracle Story (Jewish Holocaust World War 11 Biography) (Faces of Eve)

If I survive

Nazi Germany and the Jews 100-year-old Lena Goldsteins Miracle Story

Faces of Eve Series, No. 1

Barbara Miller

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If I Survive: Nazi Germany and the Jews,

100-year-old Lena Goldsteins Miracle Story /Barbara Miller

1st ed.

Faces of Eve Series no 1

Cover photos - top: Warsaw, Poland, 1943, Waffen SS soldiers beside a burning building during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem 4613/733

Bottom: German Stormtroopers Force Warsaw Ghetto Dwellers to Evacuate Their Homes, Yad Vashem Photo Archives, Jerusalem 359_76

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About the Author

This is Barbaras second book on the Holocaust with the first being the biography of William Cooper in 2012. He was an Aboriginal Australian who, as well as being an activist for his people, led a protest against Kristallnacht, the start of the Holocaust or Shoah in 1938. She wrote a historical biography in 2014 on European adventurers who were the first to land on Australian soil in 1606. This was followed in 2018 with her memoir, White Woman Black Heart and The Dying Days of Segregation in Austr alia .

This gripping biography of Lena Goldstein is the first in a series called Faces of Eve and has come out of Barbaras long history of involvement with the Jewish community in Australia and her 10 trips to Israel with husband Norman attending Christian conferences and leading tour groups. Barbara is a pastor, mediator, psychologist, sociologist. She lives in Cairns, Australia. She was shortlisted in 2018 for the Queensland Literary Awards for a Work of State Significance for her me moir.

Reviews

This is a compelling, indeed exemplary work, that merges the history of the Holocaust with the live story of one survivor: Lena Goldstein, aged 100, one of the last living witnesses to the horrors of the Holoc aust.

Barbara Miller is helping to keep Lenas voice alive, in doing so, she fulfils the Jewish Mitzvah of Zachor - To Reme mber:

Konrad Kwiet, Emeritus Profe ssor

and Resident Historian Sydney Jewish Mu seum.

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Lena Goldstein is perhaps one of the last survivors at the age of 100 who witnessed personally the situation and conditions which existed in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. The deportations and the rumours of mass killings (at the time thought unbelievable) proved to be true. Lena survived as she said by miracles but if it were not for her positive spirit, resilience and humour the outcome could have been very different.Barbara Millers work is extremely informative not only of the conditions of that time but also of the historical background that created the opportunity for what we now know as the Holocaust and ultimately the destruction of European Jewry. The world looked away!!!

Eva Engel, OAM, Founder of the first Australian 2nd Generation of the Holocaust Group and first Child Survivor of the Holocaust G roup

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In this concise, compact and highly readable book, the author and her subject have collaborated to produce an invaluable record of not merely one persons extraordinary experiences but of the backdrop of horrific world events. Lena Goldstein found in Barbara Miller the ideal biographer and together they document the real, living, complex human beings who faced, and perpetrated, incredible evil. The reader is quickly drawn in to the world of those whom the Nazis had targeted for murder, with the challenges and complexities facing a single individual given the context of the brutality of some and the kindness of others. Barbara Miller allows each reader to learn and also encourages deep reflection on how humankind could include such an episode in its s tory.

Lena Goldstein has shaped many lives through telling her personal story of a survival which in many ways appears miraculous, although her interactions were, at every stage, with men and women who themselves were making life and death choices. While her story is unique, it provides a window into a world which never should have been - and now should never be forgo tten.

If I Survive deserves to be read widely, discussed and, above all, appreciated. The humanity, personal dignity and integrity of Lena Goldstein is inspirational. It is to the authors great credit that she has produced a wonderful, multi -d imensional account of this extraordinary womans life.

Jeremy Jones AM, former President of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Chair, Australian National Dialogue of Christians, Muslims & Jews, Director, Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Cou ncil

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How was it possible that some Jews managed to survive the Nazi re gime?

This is Lenas riveting personal story of her long years evading the fate of being captured and murdered like so many of her family and friends. It is one of a heroic eye witness and now - y ear -o ld memory keeper to a time and place in history that needs to be remembered not only to validate the fate of those who perished but for the generations who fo llow.

Barbara Millers carefully researched book, enriched by Lenas telling of her own story, describes Lenas early days in Lublin, Poland, in the 1920s surrounded by a loving family, close community ties and abundant culture. Germanys calculated invasion of Poland on September 1st 1939 created a world of state sponsored anti -J ewish terror, persecution on the streets, starvation in the ghettos and mass deportations to death c amps.

It should not be forgotten. Lenas ultimate survival, like that of other Holocaust survivors, depended on the selfless acts of genuine kindness by strangers who risked their lives and those of their own families to resist the evil injustice of Jewish geno cide.

The strong message resonating throughout this powerful book is to inspire and inform future generations to never lose hope.

Viv Parry, Chairperson, Child Survivors of the Holocaust, Melbo urne

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Another important book from the celebrated writer Barbara Miller. Expertly researched and skillfully written, this personal story of a hundred - y ear -o ld Warsaw Ghetto survivor becomes a heart -w renching narrative of heroism and perseverance against all odds. A significant addition to the Holocaust studies, this book is a must - r ead .