To See You Again

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Summary: Saw the Schimmels at my school
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: Let bygones be bygones
Review: I felt mixed emotions about "Betty's choice". She wrote that she honored her values of family and didn't want to have Richie leave his family (with a 7-yr-old) nor for her own children to suffer. She modeled the behavior she would want her children to have.
It's as if she matured and realized that it's not as black and white as it appeared in her youth---that there are many things to consider besides her own immediate desires.---In fact, she gave into her own immediate desires when she married Otto. She tries to make it seem like Otto and her mother arranged for her to marry him but she said "I do". She didn't think ahead to how she would feel if Richie wasn't in fact dead. Perhaps she was influenced by her father missing for so long---and never returning.
But the fact remains that it was HER CHOICE to marry Otto. But she didn't decide to LOVE him. That came later...after she saw Richie and made a decision to stay with her husband and let bygones be bygones.

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Summary: YES....THIS STORY IS FACT
Review: I have met Betty Schimmel and her husband Otto. How anyone can say her story is fiction is beyond me. Yes, both Betty and her husband Otto survived the concentration camps. The deep emotions of her story are still evident in her voice and face. This is a true life story about both the horrors of war and being a Jew in WWII Europe and of true love.

True, this is not an ending to give away. Read Betty's story. It will rip your heart in many directions. You will not be disappointed. You will not be able to put this book down.

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Summary: A 10 star riveting book
Review: I still have not finished reading this book and absolutely cannot put it down. Reading about Betty's great love, then losing it only to find it again during a horrific period in her life and in history, wartime Budapest, has kept me up at nights wanting to reach back into time and right all the wrongs she has suffered. Never, never, NEVER has a book been so well written. This book runs through all the emotions and I will never forget Betty Schimmel's story! A definite 10 star book if there ever was one.

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Summary: One of the most amazing books I've read
Review: Not very many books make me cry..this one DID! Betty Schimmel is an amazing survivor and has a story that I will probably never forget. I do not understand how people can call her "selfish" or or say she complained too much. She endured and survived the most cruelest circumstances and her story tells how strong love can be even in the darkest times. If someone can read this book and not feel any emotion something is wrong. This book makes you realize how lucky we are to enjoy freedom and health. I read this book more than a year ago and it still touches my life.

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Summary: A memoir of the human heart... a drama of the highest order.
Review: This story touched me in so many ways. For anyone who has found someone they completely love, the thought of losing them is almost unimaginable...but was a part of the story of Betty Schimmel. Overriding her entire narrative is the fact of how absolutely terrible the Holocaust was and how it affected millions of lives that might have been different had the holocaust never occurred. This story will touch anyone who reads it and will make you realize how lucky you are.

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Summary: A memoir of the human heart... a drama of the highest order.
Review: To See You Again celebrates life and love in a time of war and betrayal. This book touched me in so many ways, and it made me glad to know that there was still some goodness in the world, even in a time of so much suffering. Betty's life was described in heart wrenching detail, and you felt as if you were there with Betty...laughed with her...and cried with her. I started to cry when I read this book during my 8th period class, and my tears probably didn't go unnoticed, then again, the people beside me would probably agree if they read this extraordinary true story.

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Summary: A terrifically moving story that celebrates life & love!
Review: When most people think of war or the Holocaust, they probably don't immediately realize the very unique, personal stories that play out against the backdrop of the larger conflict. This book tells several such stories from the point of view of a young woman who was lucky enough to survive the worst kind of horror man can create. The pages not only describe interesting events from the Eastern European campaign of World War 2, but they contain a love story that operates on many different levels. People of the present generation may find the story in its totality hard to fathom, believe or empathize with, but the days lived by the author were during a different time when life was simultaneously cheap and valuable. Betty Schimmel is an incredible woman, and if her husband, Otto, wasn't Jewish, I think he could qualify for Sainthood. Buy this book. You'll learn something important while being deeply touched.

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Summary: very juicy!!!
Review: Wow. That was a good book! I liked it a lot. I thought it was very good. It was just interesting and juicy! I also thought that was interesting how a few people in the reviews knew her. Well I would recommend it to anyone.