This gripping and highly acclaimed account of a young woman's experience in concentration camps now includes a final chapter, "A Time to Forgive?" detailing the author's trips back to her former forced labor camp in Germany.| Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Table of Contents Preface: How Can You Smile? 1: The Hidden Crowd 2: Grandfather Escapes 3: Four Years 4: Our General 5: Humans and Apricots 6: Arrival 7: A Hostile Planet 8: Stay Together 9: Alone with the Kommandant 10: Options 11: Seed of Sarah 12: Liberation in Leipzig 13: My American Captain 14: Return to Kaposvar 15: A Time to Forgive? Appendix: My Letters to Maine, U.S.A Sources and Acknowledgments Index |"European culture may have failed the human race during the crucial Holocaust years, but it is vindicated in this memoir in the person of the young Judith Magyar."—Freema Gottlieb, New York Times Book Review
"We must be grateful to [Isaacson] for her courage to relive the anguish in order to write this remarkable book."—Bernard Lown, M.D., corecipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize
"What informs the story in this book is an indomitable optimism despite great odds."—Yaacov Luria, Jewish Post and Opinion
|Judith Magyar Isaacson is a retired dean of students at Bates College. She is a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Hessisch-Lichtenau.