Thanks to My Mother

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Summary: very good, but sad and depressing
Review: I am in the 7th grade. Most people might think i'm too young to read this, but belive me, i've read much more mature stuff. You should also believe me when i say that this is a really good book. I read this for an English report and i will never forget what i read. what the author went through was a horrifying experience and i hope that something like the holocaust never happens again.

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Summary: A Truly Enlightening Story
Review: I loved this book! It is a really touching story about World War II and some experiences a girl had. This story is unbelievable. This story is about a girl named Susinka whose mother is the reason she stayed alive. Susinka is actually Schoschana Rabinovici.

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Summary: Thanks To My Mother
Review: Thanks To My Mother is a heart-wrenching, sad story of a young girl, Susie Weksler, and her family in the Holocaust. Together, they faced the horrors of prejudice and hate, being forced to live in a ghetto. The family survived the ghetto, living through a series of "actions", selections of various groups of people sent to their death. Soon, togther with other survivors, they were seperated and sent to various concentration camps. Susie remained with her mother, who succeeded in smuggling in Susie, who was hidden in a knapsack. Miraculously, the two survived the terrors of Kaiserwald, mostly thanks to the wisdom and courage of Raja, the mother. Raja protected and cared for Susie, at the risk of being killed at the camps they were sent to. Together, they endured the abuse, the malnurishment, and the worst- the death march. I read on, captivated by the horrific details of the concentration camps. This was an extremely moving book, and I couldn't put it down, although it took a while to get into. It gave me a better understanding of the Holocaust. All in all, it's one of the best books I have read.

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Summary: Thanks To My Mother
Review: Thanks To My Mother is a heart-wrenching, sad story of a young girl, Susie Weksler, and her family in the Holocaust. Together, they faced the horrors of prejudice and hate, being forced to live in a ghetto. The family survived the ghetto, living through a series of "actions", selections of various groups of people sent to their death. Soon, togther with other survivors, they were seperated and sent to various concentration camps. Susie remained with her mother, who succeeded in smuggling in Susie, who was hidden in a knapsack. Miraculously, the two survived the terrors of Kaiserwald, mostly thanks to the wisdom and courage of Raja, the mother. Raja protected and cared for Susie, at the risk of being killed at the camps they were sent to. Together, they endured the abuse, the malnurishment, and the worst- the death march. I read on, captivated by the horrific details of the concentration camps. This was an extremely moving book, and I couldn't put it down, although it took a while to get into. It gave me a better understanding of the Holocaust. All in all, it's one of the best books I have read.

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Summary: Thanks To My Mother
Review: The eye-opening story Thanks to My Mother, written by Susie Weskler, is a true outlook on the hardships Susie and her mother Raja endured for the three years in Nazi concentration camps. When reading Susie's story, I sometimes had to remind myself that this was actually happening to real people. It turns my stomach how cruel human beings can be.
If someone is interested in World War II and what was happening to innocent people beyond the front line, then this book will be a good choice. If family history, anger, suspense, or violence interests you, then Thanks to My Mother would be a book to read. They story of her life has made a huge scar that will never go away, but she lives on, and it shows in her writing.

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Summary: Courage to Live
Review: This book is a compelling story about a girl who lives through the Holocaust. It really is her mother who pushes Susie along throughout the book. Some other people, old and young, had helped the Jews and told them what they could do to help themselves stay alive. When a selection was made in a Christian Cemetery in Rossa, the Jewish women saw three young people running along the top of the wall. As Susie remembers, "This is what the young people had meant: the young people who had warned us and who had died on the wall for us. They had shouted, "Jews, go to the right." They meant: on the right side is life." Susie's mother, Raja, had told Susie many very important sayings about how to survive the Kaiserwald camp. When Raja was sick, Susie was only 9 years old and she had to live without her mother or anyone watching over her. She began to gradually give up, and her personal and mental appearance had gone downhill. When she visited her mother in the sick house, Raja saw her and exclaimed, "Mussulman!" This made Susie change her condition and get it back to where it was before she got sick. During this incident she remembers, "Throughout our time in the ghetto and in the camp, my mother had always said you couldn't neglect yourself, that you always had to believe that one day your troubles would pass. If you gave up, it was a waste of all the trouble you had already endured. You had to look after your appearance and must not become a Mussulman." This was probably the most important saying Susie learned throughout her stay at the camp. I encourage everyone and anyone to read this book. It gives you a new outlook on life and makes you think about your outlook on life. When the camp was liberated, all the horrors of Susie's life during the Holocaust were imprinted in her memory forever.

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Summary: A truely great book
Review: This book is one of the best holocaust books I have read. It shows the powerful bonds between parent and child in times of crises. A wonderful first hand acount, but it is not for younger readers, because it is very grphic at times.

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Summary: Thanks to my Mother
Review: This is a great but sad book because of the significant details on how life was being Jewish during the Holocaust. In this book Susie and her mother escape death but are sent to various concentration camps to work. There are many close encounters for both of them, especially Susie. Susie's mother was very courageous and persistent so that's how they both stayed alive during the Holocaust.

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Summary: A moving tribute to the courage of the human spirit.
Review: This is a haunting book. It is amazing what the human spirit can endure when there is bit of hope. Susie's mother not only was determined that they both would survive but she retained her humanity in the process often sharing rations and thinking of ways to help the other prisoners. Sometimes the writing is stiff but is reminds you the story is being told by a child's viewpoint. This would be an excellent book to recommend to students who have read The Diary of Anne Frank and want to know more about the Holocaust.

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Summary: Review
Review: Wow! How incredibly poignant is a child's view of the pains and injustices suffered during the Holocaust. This book put a very different perspective on all my insights into this horrible segment of our world history. I hurt so much for the author that I couldn't put the book down, with the hope that each new chapter would bring about better circumstances for the child.