Too Stubborn to Die : A Child of Nordausen

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Summary: This book is not a true story.
Review: I am so happy that I have had a change to read this book from the author Cato Jaramillo.She has a lot of courage, I heard she speaks in schools and all over different cities, about what crime can do to innocent people in this world. I wish we had more people like her living here, then maybe crime would not be as bad as it is. Maybe someday we can be so lucky to have her speak at our school. I know that in this world there are people who say that many of the things did not happened in the second world war, but everyone who has any brains do know it has happened. All we have to do is watch TV and we see what the war does to innocent children like she was. I just like to tell the author of this book. Please keep on speaking at schools, because you are helping others who have had a rotten life. It shows some of us that just because life is bad that you do not have to turn to crime. That this is no excuse for you. Try to stay out of trouble I like to tell everyone in this world, but I know this is impossible, but maybe a few words of what I have to say is helping others to open up their eyes. Thanks Cato for your book.

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Summary: Don't let the past repeat itself again.
Review: I have read the book, and understand the trama of Cato as a child, having gone through so much as an unwanted child from birth on, living in an abusive home, later to be taken to a concentration camp after trusting her friends to take her to a party where she could get food with her brother. I do not expect anyone who has been through such trama to always get everything right in the correct order as others have pointed out. Maybe people need to look at the experiences that people like this have been through and stop denying that anything ever happened, and learn from their experiences. Hate and bitterness can cause so much suffering. No one will ever really know everything that happened during this horrible time of war. Many people still deny what has happened. Lets learn from the past, and make our future better, for us, and those around us including our families. How greatful I am that someone out there has the guts to tell what she can remember, even if others find it so hard and painful to believe. Thank you Cato Jaramillo for opening our eyes to the past. God Bless You!
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Summary: Made up story
Review: Not only is this book not written in the right order but also not a true story. This lady has newer been in any concentration camp. Even her brother Piet(not his real name)denied ever have been in a concentration camp. Cato's neighborhood has newer been bombed for hour and hours or any other places in Amsterdam. Amsterdam has no sewers you can walk in, as is written on page 85 in this book. Also on the same page it says, Jews were forced in a ghetto with a high brick wall aroud it. Not true, I am Jewish, I lived in Amsterdam at that time, my Grand Father and Aunt and Uncle's lived there with there Family's and non of uf had a wall around us. The hunger winter was in 1944-1945, the American Air Force dropped food just out side Amsterdam on May 6th 1945. The execution on page 103 dit take place on March 1945, not in 1943. How did Cato could have seen the execution and seen the food drop if she was in Dora concentration camp? Dont believe this story, do some investigation. (...)

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Summary: Made up story
Review: Not only is this book not written in the right order but also not a true story. This lady has newer been in any concentration camp. Even her brother Piet(not his real name)denied ever have been in a concentration camp. Cato's neighborhood has newer been bombed for hour and hours or any other places in Amsterdam. Amsterdam has no sewers you can walk in, as is written on page 85 in this book. Also on the same page it says, Jews were forced in a ghetto with a high brick wall aroud it. Not true, I am Jewish, I lived in Amsterdam at that time, my Grand Father and Aunt and Uncle's lived there with there Family's and non of uf had a wall around us. The hunger winter was in 1944-1945, the American Air Force dropped food just out side Amsterdam on May 6th 1945. The execution on page 103 dit take place on March 1945, not in 1943. How did Cato could have seen the execution and seen the food drop if she was in Dora concentration camp? Dont believe this story, do some investigation. (...)

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Summary: Not a true story.
Review: On a request of a TV station in Salt Lake City,I did a review of the book Too Stubborn To Die.Autor, Cato Jaramillo.After extende research and my personal experience during 1940-1945 in Amsterdam Holland I came tot the conclusion this book is not a true story.Here are only a few facts: Amsterdam never had a Jewish Ghetto with a high brick wall around it. Amsterdam has no sewer systeem that you can walk in.The food drop by the American Air Force did take place in May 1945 not in 1942 or 1943.The exucution of 30 men(no young boys)did take place in March 1945. Not in 1943.Amsterdam Noord was bombed once and hospital by mistake.Both those places are miles away from where the Author was living.Concentration camp Dora did not yet existed on Aug.1943.Dora had 2 ovens not 10 and no gas chambers.Plus many more facts that are wrong or did not happent.

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Summary: This book is bogus!
Review: This book has been determined by leading experts on WWII as completely false. In Utah where the author lives, most local book stores have pulled her books from their stores. How this book continues to sell is beyond me.

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Summary: This book is bogus!
Review: This book has been determined by leading experts on WWII as completely false. In Utah where the author lives, most local book stores have pulled her books from their stores. How this book continues to sell is beyond me.

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Summary: I have met this lady
Review: This book is awesome she came to speak at my school when i was in 6th grade i can assure you that it is all true so what if she didnt have all the dates right if you would of been through what she has you wouldnt have them right either

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Summary: Don't be fooled!
Review: This book makes a total mess of history. Numerous incidents described in this book just did not happen. A few other incidents which are described as having happened in Holland early on in WWII actually happened close to the end of the war. According to the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, the Jewish History Museum (Amsterdan, Holland) and the Mittelbau-Dora Memorial (Nordhausen, Germany)this book is a total work of fantasy. Please don't be fooled by the title. This book is definitely not "A True Story".

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Summary: too stubborn to die by Cato Jaramillo
Review: This is a great book that tells about a young girls life during the holicost. It is one of the best books i'v read. Cato is a young Duch girl that grows up in a life with very little love. The only love and comfort she gets is from her grandmother and brother. But when her grandma dies and her brother slowly moves out of her life. She has no one to turn to. luckaly she has a friend named Greet and they get into all kinds of trouble. She had two formal "friends" named Henny and Jenny they were twins that had joind the hitlar youth group. And Cato and her family would have nothing to do with them. It was very hard not to join because you would get feed and properly taken care of. One day Henny and Jenny invited Cato and her little brother Peite to come to a dinner and they would be able to eat all they want and there would be other kids there also. They went and were captured and put on trains then shiped to consentration camps. where they are forced to work in teribal conditions. With little food, they were treated as unwanted dogs. by this time she was about 12-13years. She meet a boy named Martin they became very close friends and helped eachother servive. This book is a great book and I highly recomend it.