The Light After the Dark: Six True Stories of Triumph After All Hope Had Gone...

by Alvin Abram

Book Overview

Abram crafts six true stores of men and women who withstood the dark years of Nazi barbarism, fighting back with vigor and creativity to preserve their lives and their Jewishness, and who then when on to build new lives.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550139983
• ISBN13: 9781550139983
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Key Porter Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent reading. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

This book is solely from the heart. The author certainly took a lot of time and care to research this book and wrote it with a lot of feeling. I cannot wait until Alvin Abram writes another book even a sequel would be thrilling to read once again. I have recommended this book to all of my friends here in Toronto and abroad. I am sure they too will derive as much pleasure as I did in reading this book. Thank you for making the holocaust a more pleasurable reading experience. Jane Skinner

This testimony is powerful and moving

While there is much to inspire in these accounts, my first reaction was of amazement at the behaviour of people on both sides of events. What a lesson in humanity. These stories make personal the atrocious events in history, the people who were the victims, and some other people who were just there, and by being there, played roles in what happened. Besides the history that can be learned through all the detail about places and events, the testimony of these people gives us much to think about. How would I have reacted? These stories enlarge our understanding of both history and humanity. A most worthwhile read.

This is a powerful, moving book.

Before hunger, deprivation, terror and torture, there was another part of life - life filled with meaning, spirituality, dignity, resistance and struggle, that even in the blackest moment in the history of the Jewish people, the enemy could neither vanquish nor destroy. That is the message of this powerful, moving book, a message we must never forget.

These are powerful stories.

These are powerful stories and for the most part you have told them well. In a marketplace that is crowded with Holocaust manuscripts, I think yours stands out . . . I was initially dubious about the Holocaust conveyed by means of something fictionalized short narratives, but the result is a powerful manuscript, so how can I argue against the basic premise. This is one of the best Holocaust manuscripts I've read.

A Great Book for War Readers

There are many stories from holocust survivors. If you want info on the holocust from the survivors then this is a great book for you !