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Summary: 13 YR.OLD READER/ THE BEST BOOK EVER!!
Review: "To See You Again" was the best book I've ever read. I am really
interested in the Jew/Nazi/World War 2... My favorite character was Richie. He sounds
perfect... The only bad part of the book was toward the end. I wish
Betty would've found Richie sooner and married him.
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Summary: Riveting love story with historical accuracy
Review: "To See you again" is one of the most touching stories I have read in ages. It is a riveting tale that holds the reader throughout its entirety. Although much of the story takes place in Hungary during the Holocaust, the mood is one of hope & even joy in a time & place when it is least expected. The characters become bigger-than-life & you feel as if you are there with them. I enjoyed this book completely and would recommend to all: historians, lovers, and anyone wanting a great story. Congrats to the authors.
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Summary: Absolutely wonderful
Review: As brutally sad as it is triumphant, TO SEE YOU AGAIN is one of the most heartfelt, nearly bruising things I have ever read. It's charm isn't a literary wonder or a triumph of style and prose -- it's triumph is it's honesty. For anyone who has ever loved and lost, this book will force you to rethink any kind of pity you had for yourself. Betty Schimmel, like so many Holocaust survivors, stared the devil in the mouth and had the courage to come forward and tell us all about it. She is a wonder.
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Summary: Life works in mysterious ways
Review: At its heart this book is about how one must make painful, uncertain decisions in painful, uncertain times -- and how one particular person and family lived with the impact of those decisions long after WWII had ended. Reading about Betty's life, as well as her husband, Otto (not to mention Richie), is a poignant, moving experience. All emerge as real people with real virtues and real flaws -- products of the time and place in which they were forced to grow up too quickly and in a world turned upside down. The book works because of the well-crafted details: Betty's pre-war memories of her mother's delicate tea cups and jam jars lined up neatly in a row; the daily decisions her mother -- and others -- made during the war to protect themselves or to escape the enemy; the description of how a friend, who chose to pass as a gentile, was lost; and the pain in Otto's voice -- a man who had resigned himself to always be second fiddle. No wonder he worked so hard. "To See You Again" reminds us that we're all too human, that some choices stay with you forever, and that we can grow to accept and even to embrace them.
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Summary: Everyone should read this book
Review: Betty Schimmel and Ethel Markowitz teach us that we can survive anything and make the best of even the worst possible circumstances. It's beautiful - filled with love, suffering, accomplishment. It's even more wonderful because it's true.
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Summary: One of the best books about the Holocaust.
Review: Betty Schimmel's book, "To See You Again' is an important slice of history about love found and love lost in the midst of one of the worst tragedies of our time.Her life and world was being tore down around her as the Hitler war machine made its way into Budapest. Yet in the middle of all this turmoil, true love was found and the only thing that could tear it apart was the simple fact that she was Jewish. Her love for Richie Covacs' outweighed her safety, outweighed the gold star she was forced to wear, and eventually, it out outweighed her sanity. My heart ached for Betty the day the SS and the Arrow Cross came knocking at the doors and gathered up what was left of her family. I wanted to spring into the book and help Richies' 'Kis Pofa" (His pet name for her which means: Little face.) Was she ever going to see him again? Would they get married, have children, be in each others arms ever again? "To See You Again" is also a story of the human will to survive. Betty's Mother is one of the most heroic people I have every read about. A woman, despite all the grisly horror around her, kept her undying faith in God. It was that faith that kept her and her family from dying on a grueling death march and in the concentration camps. This book will make you shed tears of joy and tears of pain. I have meet Betty and Otto during the taping of her son's (Robert Schimmel) HBO comey special. It was an honor! Rolin Timmerman Grand Rapids, MI.
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Summary: wonderful love story
Review: Do you believe in DESTINY?? This was one of the saddest love stories I have read. Knowing it was a true story, made me realize how lucky some of us are to not have had to live her life..She truly is a most remarkable woman.
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Summary: What if YOU found the love you've been obsessing about?
Review: How this woman manages to make a rational decision in the midst of an emotional upheaval of the most incredible proportions is beyond my comprehension. It would be like deciding the safest path to choose while running down an erupting volcano... Both romantic and gut-wrenching -- in the middle of her rose-colored youth, a young woman is faced with finding and losing the love of her life. Not knowing what happened to him, not having closure to this chapter of her life probably gave rise to her over-the-top romantic memories of her lost love. What amazes me is the strength of the characters, Betty, her mother, her father, and her husband -- the way they acted through events that we can't even imagine today... What this woman lived through is unimaginable -- and the love she received from Otto is a testament of true love -- the kind of love we all dream about. Betty is a lucky woman to have found what she'd been looking for, and to find that closure through tremendous pain. You'll learn about the war, the devastation of the concentration camps, and how tens of thousands of families were affected by the acts of just a few horrible people. It is the story of one real person, someone whose legacy we're lucky to share.
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Summary: WOW!
Review: I am a high-school student in Arizona. We had to read this book for school, and the Schimmels came to our class to talk about their experiences as Holocaust survivors.
I didn't really care that much about the Richie love story once I met them in person. Mr. & Mrs. Schimmel are people devoted to each other and, no matter how it happened, found an incredible love story of their own. I hope someday to have a relationship like theirs is now.
Their survival really made a difference to the world, since they are here to tell their story. There are a lot of people my age that think the Holocaust never happened. I know it did because I met people who lived through it and spend all their time telling students about the war. It was really touching, and a lot of us were crying hearing about all the terrible things that happened to them and we were all thinking about how we might have been in the same situation.
I guess the best part of the book is what people will do to survive, but the really cool thing is that Betty took the time to write it and tell everyone about her story.
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Summary: A tragic sad story
Review: I am surprised that everyone is saying how generous and kind Otto was to Betty. I found him to be very selfish. Betty had made it clear that she wanted to be with Richie. He had promised her freedom if she ever found him.
HE LIED TO HER. RICHIE CAME TO THE DOOR AND OTTO SENT HIM AWAY AND KEPT IT A SECRET FROM BETTY FOR ALMOST 30 YEARS. He even pressed her soon afterwards to get the marriage legal (they had just had a jewish ceremony prior) and he was so anxious to move to PA. He lived for himself he was lying to Betty by keeping secrets. She agonized over the idea that Richie might be dead. When she found out otherwise, Otto said "I couldn't let you go.
I couldn't let my son go. I had already lost so much." He only thought of himself and he lived a lie for all those years. He was utterly SELFISH. Betty was not happy in her marriage to Otto. Her heart belonged to and with Richie.
Otto STOLE her life and true happiness because he wanted her for himself. When 2 people are meant to be together like Richie and Betty they SHOULD be together. A very sad, sad story.
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