Abiding Hope: Bearing Witness to the Holocaust

by Benjamin A. Samuelson, Jeff Shevlowitz

HISTORY / JEWISH / HOLOCAUST. There will come a time, not too many years from now, when no one who suffered at the hands of the Nazis will be here to "I was there. This happened to me. I saw this." Author Benjamin Samuelson is one of few survivors of the Auschwitz "I don’t understand how or why I made it through alive. . . . I woke, ate, did the task assigned me, and had but one Why?" "So many times, I considered walking into the air-tight brick room with the next group of people. Why didn't I? The only answer I've been able to think of is that some inner, divine spark of life would not allow it. I sincerely felt that by living, I would one day bear witness." It took Benjamin 50 years before he could begin to relate his story to Jeff Shevlowitz. From his happy childhood in Rumania to the horrors of four Nazi concentration camps to the Israeli struggle for independence--a story of historical significance; countless miracles; and the will to live, with abiding hope, to tell the world of what he had witnessed.

288 pages, Paperback

First published March 12, 2003