Transcending Darkness: A Girl's Journey Out of the Holocaust

by Estelle Glaser Laughlin

Book Overview

"Please, Mama, I don't want to live like this," pleaded twelve-year-old Estelle Glaser's older sister as they watched the bodies of friends dangle from the gibbet in the center of the appelplatz of the Madjanek concentration camp. "I cannot take the indignities and brutalities. Let's step forward and make them kill us now." But Estelle's mother fiercely responded to her two daughters: No Life is sacred. It is noble to fight to stay alive. Their mother's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089672767X
• ISBN13: 9780896727670
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

In depth account of Holocaust survivor

Amazing read! I couldn’t put the book down. In depth account of stories experiences from ghetto to concentration camps to adventures of liberation. Enlightening, suspenseful. This book showed me the true meaning of life! A must read!