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DAR from ISRAEL
Book Review by Dar, a 15 year old Israeli boy
I promised I would Tell" by Sonia Schreiber Weitz
This story is about a girl named Sonia Schreiber.
Sonia is a survivor of five Nazi concentration camps:
1. Auschwitz
2. Bergen-
3. Venusberg
4. Mauthausen
5. Plaszow
She was born in Krakow Poland in 1928. In 1939, when Sonia was just eleven years old, she and her family were taken into ghettos with other Jewish families.
Sonia's family had 84 people in it but Sonia and her sister Blanca were the only sole survivors.
Along the way Sonia, and her family had a lot of hard times. Every time when Sonia felt anger or loneliness she would start to write a little poem like:
1." 40 years later" (page 96)
2." Where was man?" (page 86)
3." The tree of life" (page 100)
She wrote many other poems as well.
After six terrible years, she finally made it to the United States.
Sonia was nineteen when she began a new life in the USA. She said that the people in the USA didn't want to hear about the Holocaust and the survivors.
The most awful thing about it was that people didn't know the meaning of the word "Holocaust" like it wasn't part of their vocabulary. On the other hand, people who had been through the Holocaust and survived the terrible Nazi concentration camps didn't want or didn't have the will to talk about it.
The only one who actually listened to her was Dr. Mark Weitz and she soon fell in love with him. They met in 1949 and got married in 1950.
Two years later she had her first son and in 1955 she had twin daughters (one of the twins is my mom).
Her sister Blanca was building her life too with a man she met and married in the ghetto, named Norbert. Blanca had her first son in 1950 and her daughter in 1953.
The reason I chose this book for the book report is because my Grandma wrote this book from her experiences.
Sonia is my Grandma!
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