I Promised I Would Tell

by Sonia Schreiber Weitz, Susan Belt Cogley (Editor)

Holocaust educator and survivor Sonia Weitz has often been called a survivor with a poet's eye. Born in Krakow, Poland, she was 11 years old when her family and other Polish Jews were herded into ghettos. Of the 84 members of her family, she and her sister Blanca were the sole survivors of years in ghettos and concentration camps. At an early age she turned to poetry to cope with her emotions. Her memoir, I Promised I Would Tell, includes her story of survival and more than two dozen poems through which she bears witness to the unspeakable.

Genres: History

105 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 30, 2012

Reviews

[Anne Kearns · Rating 4 out of 5]

i’ve never understood poetry nor liked it. i always thought it confusing and unnatural but now i understand
there is such beauty to sonia’s poetry, such hope, despair, longing.

[Guy B · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a bout how Sonia survived the holocaust.

[Kelly Kane · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book! Read it for school and it totally opened my eyes about our world's history. Very sad and kind of depressing though.