From Ashes to Life: My Memories of the Holocaust

by Lucille Eichengreen

Book Overview

In this disturbing but inspirational account of her experiences of the Holocaust, Lucille Eichengreen relates her journey as a young Jewish girl through Nazi Germany and Poland -- including internment... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1562790528
• ISBN13: 9781562790523
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Mercury House
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Gripping

I had a hard time putting this book down. Eichengreen does a good job of telling her story - it wasn't confusing and I didn't come away with a lot of unanswered questions. Obviously someone who didn't experience the Holocaust first hand will never fully appreciate or understand it, but I feel like I gained some insight into through this book.

A great pick!

This is a very well written personal story about this most awful period in our world's history.

Fanstastic , Touching Book!

I was extremely impressed with this book. The author decribes in detail her life before anti-semitism and how it started to change. Her story is emotional and touching. She was born Celia Landau and changed her name to Lucille. She and her sister Karin were the products of a very close knit family completely torn apart by the Third Reich. Her father gets sent off to a labor camp and a year later they are delivered a box of what supposedly contains his ashes. Eventually Celia, Karin and mother are sent to the Lodz ghetto where surviving is difficult and their mother eventually dies of starvation. Celia's account of this is very sad and moving. She then tells a story of a tender love affair with Szaja in the ghetto, and befriends an elderly couple named Jules and Julius who ironically after liberation, she winds up marrying their son when she moves to New York. She and her sister Karin are then sent to Auschwitz. Poor Karin is so devastated and having trouble surviving day to day after losing both her parents. Celia's heart is again broken when Karin is not chosen in the selection and is loaded up into a truck and never seen again. Celia is only weeks away from death when Auschwitz gets liberated. She goes into detail her life after the camps including her testimony during war crimes trials that helped put many of the SS in prison. She also tells her experiences of going back to Europe in 1991 for the first time since she left. The hostility and indifference against Jews was still alive. This book is highly recommended. Well written.

Well written, personal and moving account of the Holocaust

This is by far the best personalised account of the Holocaust I've read to date. Celia manages to convey the horrors and degredation experienced by the Jewish people living through the Holocaust, and yet still manages to temper the account with a constant almost irrepressible sense of hope.I've visited Bergen-Belsen several times, and seen the official documentation and memorials, but From Ashes to Life really brought it all into perspective.This is a book that provides a factual first hand account of what actually happened, and doesn't pull any punches, but it still emminently readable by everyone.I had real difficulty putting From Ashes to Live down once I'd started it, and would recommend it to anyone!

Outstanding - good companion to Anne Frank's diary

A remarkable story of a Holocaust survivor. She was a teenager (about the same age as Anne Frank) when she had to endure the horrors of the Lodz Ghetto and the concentration camps. Her story of survival and her recent return to Germany, and how she met her husband, make for fascinating reading.