Thanks to My Mother

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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.

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Summary: The Horrendous Truth
Review: Wow. This book was so good that it was at the same level as Anne Frank's diary. Susie Weksler is only 8 years old when the war starts. She has to move many times. As the war goes on many horrendous things happen. Susie has seen more than 20 people shot right in front of her eyes as a 9-10 year old. Susie has to disguise herself as an adult to keep herself alive and at one point has to pretend her mother is her sister. This book was very, very, sad and out of Susie's huge family only her mother, her uncle, and she herself survived. The story does stick by the title, Susie's mother is the one who always keeps going, she is the one who always pushed Susie to keep going till the end of the miserable war.