My Three Lives: The Story of a Jewish Girl from Papenburg, Germany

By Anne Diekhoff and Ilse Polak

"I survived that, and I survived the concentration camp, and the I still had a good life: I consider that to be a miracle."~Ilse Polak from My Three LivesIlse Polak was born into a Jewish family in the small town of Papenburg, Germany in 1927 - six years before Hitler came to power. When her school was destroyed as a result of Kristallnacht, Ilse was only 11 years old.When she and her family were deported to the Riga Ghetto, she was 14 and on the threshold of adolescence.But Nazi Germany stole her childhood and her youth.While most of her family members perished in extermination camps, Ilse Polak was raised alongside SS soldiers. In her stirring memoirs, Ilse Polak tells the story of her "three lives" - the periods before, during and after the Holocaust.Photographs from the era accompany Ilse's own words, describing how she survived the war, found her living brother and managed to take back her life from the horrors of the past. From Papenburg to the Upper West Side of New York City, hers is a life of inspiration and renewal.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1499678266
• ISBN13: 9781499678260
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 68 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.2" x 5.4"