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Também me Salvaste
Uma história extraordinária de amizade entre uma jovem mãe e um velho sobrevivente do Holocausto.
Há quinze anos, Aron Lieb aproximou-se de Sue Resnick e encontrou uma companheira e uma alma gémea que se manteve firmemente ao seu lado até ao fim da vida. Uma comovente história real, que nos conta a forma como duas pessoas tão diferentes partilharam os segredos mais profundos e criaram uma relação intensa, complicada, desafiadora, divertida e, acima de tudo, de valor inestimável. Com uma prosa encantadora, Susan Kushner Resnick intercala a história de Aron, o desenvolvimento da sua amizade e uma crise de saúde que poderia forçá-los a separar-se.
Há quinze anos, Aron Lieb aproximou-se de Sue Resnick e encontrou uma companheira e uma alma gémea que se manteve firmemente ao seu lado até ao fim da vida. Uma comovente história real, que nos conta a forma como duas pessoas tão diferentes partilharam os segredos mais profundos e criaram uma relação intensa, complicada, desafiadora, divertida e, acima de tudo, de valor inestimável. Com uma prosa encantadora, Susan Kushner Resnick intercala a história de Aron, o desenvolvimento da sua amizade e uma crise de saúde que poderia forçá-los a separar-se.
326 pages, Paperback
First published October 2, 2012
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Susan Kushner Resnick
7 books8 followersI am the author of Goodbye Wifes and Daughters, a creative nonfiction account of a 1943 coal mine disaster in Montana, published by the University of Nebraska Press. I will be touring all over the US all year, starting in Montana in Feb. I live in Massachusetts."
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February 4, 2017
A beautifully written story that will touch you heart now and forever. A chance meeting between a Holocaust Survivor and a young mother leads to a 15 year friendship. They share stories, laughter, sadness and everything life throws at them. She becomes his advocate and he teaches her to swear in Yiddish. I felt like I was with through their journey, it was that real.
August 2, 2012
The book tells the story of a contemporary Jewish mother's friendship, and later, her role as a caregiver for an elderly Holocaust survivor named Aron Lieb.
This humorous and touching story gives a voice to a generation that's slowly fading from history, and is told with a sassy and playful narrative, alternating to the 2nd person. Aron's personality is wonderfully captured by Resnick and you can't help feeling an emotional attachment to this lovely person as you watch him enter the last stages of life in just 240 pages.
Resnick explores and surmises about the strength existing in his character that allowed him to survive work camps and concentration camps, while she in turn, struggles to get help support from the mainstream Jewish community to assist with his care, and to make sense of life, death and dying in suburbia. The language is fresh and relatable (even for a 30-something man of Irish descent) and most importantly, it's not "just another Holocaust tale." The story is intimate, contemporary - and poses serious questions about end of life care of the elderly, but more specifically - the remaining Holocaust survivors living amongst us.
"You Save Me, Too" is at its core, a sharp-witted story of a woman's persistent uphill struggle to honor, and provide end of life care for a Holocaust survivor, and she succeeds at giving an eternal voice to him as a person, and to his strength, courage, will, determination (and acts of revenge) in the face of the horrors unleashed upon the European Jewish community in the 20th century.
I couldn't recommend this book highly enough.
Aron Lieb lives on for eternity!
This humorous and touching story gives a voice to a generation that's slowly fading from history, and is told with a sassy and playful narrative, alternating to the 2nd person. Aron's personality is wonderfully captured by Resnick and you can't help feeling an emotional attachment to this lovely person as you watch him enter the last stages of life in just 240 pages.
Resnick explores and surmises about the strength existing in his character that allowed him to survive work camps and concentration camps, while she in turn, struggles to get help support from the mainstream Jewish community to assist with his care, and to make sense of life, death and dying in suburbia. The language is fresh and relatable (even for a 30-something man of Irish descent) and most importantly, it's not "just another Holocaust tale." The story is intimate, contemporary - and poses serious questions about end of life care of the elderly, but more specifically - the remaining Holocaust survivors living amongst us.
"You Save Me, Too" is at its core, a sharp-witted story of a woman's persistent uphill struggle to honor, and provide end of life care for a Holocaust survivor, and she succeeds at giving an eternal voice to him as a person, and to his strength, courage, will, determination (and acts of revenge) in the face of the horrors unleashed upon the European Jewish community in the 20th century.
I couldn't recommend this book highly enough.
Aron Lieb lives on for eternity!
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June 7, 2012
coming out soon....here is my official endorsement:
YOU SAVED ME, TOO, Too is a soulful story about two unlikely companions—a young mother and an elderly Holocaust survivor—and their complicated, hilarious, and extraordinary friendship. With razor sharp wit and a compassionate eye, Resnick deftly weaves together the personal and the historical in this heartbreaking, yet uplifting memoir. This book reminded me of why we are here—to help ease the suffering of others and to fearlessly love one another to the end of time.
YOU SAVED ME, TOO, Too is a soulful story about two unlikely companions—a young mother and an elderly Holocaust survivor—and their complicated, hilarious, and extraordinary friendship. With razor sharp wit and a compassionate eye, Resnick deftly weaves together the personal and the historical in this heartbreaking, yet uplifting memoir. This book reminded me of why we are here—to help ease the suffering of others and to fearlessly love one another to the end of time.
December 8, 2013
really enjoyed it. the stream of consciousness approach allowed tough topics to be handled without falling into any one experience. I could see Aron thru her eyes and heart. really amazing look into an interesting complex man and holocaust survivor. her son, when asked what he learned from Aron, said that it's important to flirt and to be kind.
December 22, 2013
Loving it! Which is weird to say about a holocaust book! A fun writer! Sue Resnick writes from the heart of her holocaust survivor friend alone in the world! Poignant, special, sad, beautiful! Amazing what Sue did to help and take care of this man. Amazing family! Very moving and emotional story!
November 3, 2012
For some reason I had trouble getting into this book at the start. I kept going tho after seeing all of the reviews on Goodreads. I enjoyed the book, but I could have done without the strong language.
January 28, 2014
an interesting memoir about a woman's relationship with a holocaust survivor....worth reading - an interesting format...not totally compelling but as she said she wanted to write about a survivor from a different perspective....
October 10, 2012
A tall handsome young Jewish man named Aron Lieb is swallowed up into the Nazi genocide machine of Auschwitz-Birkenau. After suffering untold brutality, starvation, sickness, forced labor and many near-death experiences, Aron and his estranged brother Bill survive the atrocity. Everyone else that he loved and admired had been murdered in Nazi death camps, including his parents and sisters. The terror of this experience produces lasting and devastating emotional consequences. Aron’s shattered psyche becomes a permanent sickness, manifested by an overwhelming psycho-somatic disorder, anxiety and difficulty managing relationships.
Susan Kushner Resnick is a writer, teaching creative non-fiction at Brown University. Suffering from post-partum depression, Susan has deep psychological wounds of her own. Living the American dream in suburban Boston, Susan has every reason to feel happy. She has a warm and loving relationship with her husband and her young children. Yet, something is missing. Life’s vivid beauty has become a pastel afterthought to her depression.
One day, by chance, Susan and Aron meet. Their innocent connection is sparked over coffee. At first, Susan enjoys chatting with the old Holocaust survivor who has a sparkle in his eye and a penchant for charming women. From the depths of her depression, Susan needs to talk. Aron is a good listener. Over time, Susan becomes Aron’s best friend, most trusted companion and confidant, power of attorney and life advocate. In return, Susan falls in love with every attribute and defect of Aron’s personality. Two desperate, hurting individuals sharing only the same religion become locked in a powerful relationship that saves them both in every way a person can be saved.
As an accomplished writer in her own regard, Resnick has crafted a tale that is consistently non-linear and filled with robust metaphor. Staged in first-person singular the story is produced via juxtaposition of accounts and experiences from 1919 through Aron’s death in 2011. Resnick gradually reveals the terror that Aron experienced in Nazi concentration and death camps. Her dramatic frame of reference is always an unspoken conversation between her and Aron after his death. Rather than refer to him as “Aron,” she calls him, “you.” As the book is consumed, this unusual frame of reference becomes transparent. She also writes letters to Aron’s long-dead mother, revealing Aron’s charms, foibles and personality attributes. This literary frame of reference works magic upon the reader, although its non-linear aspect requires some early adaptation.
As Resnick speaks to Aron following his death, we relive aspects of the Holocaust, yet without the minute details of Nazi brutality. We sympathize with him, despite his constant need for attention and affection, exhibited via his on-going psychosomatic illnesses. Susan is engaged by this man’s majestic survival, his penchant for charming women and later, his slide into unresolved depression, agitation and imagined infirmity. Despite his age and his psychological defects, Susan is completely captivated by Aron.
Resnick maintains the reader’s interest while balancing on-going transformations in time, place and person. Each portion of the book alternates between past and present, revealing appalling historical facts about Aron’s survival in the Holocaust, their burgeoning friendship and his increasingly precarious psychosomatic disorder. Aron constantly complains of chest pains, though the doctors can find no physical cause. As Resnick discovers, it is a broken heart. She weaves a touching story by catapulting the reader back and forth through seventy years of genocide, agony, survival, scraping by in America and their escalating emotional relationship.
This is also a tale of how Holocaust survivors often fall through the cracks of contemporary American life. Poor Aron, who deserved the very best possible psychiatric and nursing home care is shuffled along and pushed aside by a system that fails to comprehend its own mission. The insipid reparations proffered by Germany to Holocaust survivors remains a virtual insult to the emotional and psychological catastrophe that Aron’s life has become. Susan exposes the repeated failure of local community services, Jewish organizations and Germany’s pathetic attempt to pay back what money cannot purchase. She battles unmoved nursing home administrators and frigid social workers who pass the responsibility to help this poor man along to no one. The only success Resnick encounters comes from individuals reached through a synagogue outreach campaign.
Resnick leaves us wondering if she and Aron were “soul mates.” The drama we experience in this evolving relationship is both beautiful and wondrous. Resnick reveals her own emotional weaknesses and the powerful strength uncovered as she fights to save Aron from despair and an uncaring world. In her drive to save the last days of a charming but increasingly feeble Holocaust survivor, she discovers her own inner power. Just as she saves Aron at the end of his life, his love saves her at a time when she required it the most. Aron’s potent charm and his enduring love is exactly what Resnick’s fragile ego required. Desperately in need of someone to care for, Susan finds a lonely, damaged, charismatic old man who desperately needs someone to care and advocate for him. In the end, they were a perfect match, in a perfect time for each others’ emotional needs.
Resnick’s writing elucidates the complex permanent psychological trauma that Holocaust survivors typically endure. She displays this via a blunt presentation grounded in the artifacts of contemporary American lifestyle, but with painstaking expression of familial love in the time of Holocaust victims. Her writing is clear and concise, delving deeply into the psyche of two injured souls. Resnick’s style is evocative, sprinkled with generous humor and displaying remarkable insight. She reveals the scars of Aron’s death camp experiences without resorting to detailed descriptions of the horror and brutality. This is a necessary and vital part of the story and she carries it off without shocking the reader with gruesome details.
Aron lifted Susan from the depths of depression with enduring amity. Susan lifted Aron from the terror of his lifelong despair into a steadfast and lasting companionship. Apart, their lives might have faded into a dark unrelenting depression, with no end in sight. Together, the bond shared between them healed both of their wounds. A mature and enduring love remained. This is a story of life, love and fulfillment that will linger long after the book has been finished.
Charles S. Weinblatt is the author of Jacob’s Courage: A Holocaust Love Story (2007, Mazo Publishers).
Susan Kushner Resnick is a writer, teaching creative non-fiction at Brown University. Suffering from post-partum depression, Susan has deep psychological wounds of her own. Living the American dream in suburban Boston, Susan has every reason to feel happy. She has a warm and loving relationship with her husband and her young children. Yet, something is missing. Life’s vivid beauty has become a pastel afterthought to her depression.
One day, by chance, Susan and Aron meet. Their innocent connection is sparked over coffee. At first, Susan enjoys chatting with the old Holocaust survivor who has a sparkle in his eye and a penchant for charming women. From the depths of her depression, Susan needs to talk. Aron is a good listener. Over time, Susan becomes Aron’s best friend, most trusted companion and confidant, power of attorney and life advocate. In return, Susan falls in love with every attribute and defect of Aron’s personality. Two desperate, hurting individuals sharing only the same religion become locked in a powerful relationship that saves them both in every way a person can be saved.
As an accomplished writer in her own regard, Resnick has crafted a tale that is consistently non-linear and filled with robust metaphor. Staged in first-person singular the story is produced via juxtaposition of accounts and experiences from 1919 through Aron’s death in 2011. Resnick gradually reveals the terror that Aron experienced in Nazi concentration and death camps. Her dramatic frame of reference is always an unspoken conversation between her and Aron after his death. Rather than refer to him as “Aron,” she calls him, “you.” As the book is consumed, this unusual frame of reference becomes transparent. She also writes letters to Aron’s long-dead mother, revealing Aron’s charms, foibles and personality attributes. This literary frame of reference works magic upon the reader, although its non-linear aspect requires some early adaptation.
As Resnick speaks to Aron following his death, we relive aspects of the Holocaust, yet without the minute details of Nazi brutality. We sympathize with him, despite his constant need for attention and affection, exhibited via his on-going psychosomatic illnesses. Susan is engaged by this man’s majestic survival, his penchant for charming women and later, his slide into unresolved depression, agitation and imagined infirmity. Despite his age and his psychological defects, Susan is completely captivated by Aron.
Resnick maintains the reader’s interest while balancing on-going transformations in time, place and person. Each portion of the book alternates between past and present, revealing appalling historical facts about Aron’s survival in the Holocaust, their burgeoning friendship and his increasingly precarious psychosomatic disorder. Aron constantly complains of chest pains, though the doctors can find no physical cause. As Resnick discovers, it is a broken heart. She weaves a touching story by catapulting the reader back and forth through seventy years of genocide, agony, survival, scraping by in America and their escalating emotional relationship.
This is also a tale of how Holocaust survivors often fall through the cracks of contemporary American life. Poor Aron, who deserved the very best possible psychiatric and nursing home care is shuffled along and pushed aside by a system that fails to comprehend its own mission. The insipid reparations proffered by Germany to Holocaust survivors remains a virtual insult to the emotional and psychological catastrophe that Aron’s life has become. Susan exposes the repeated failure of local community services, Jewish organizations and Germany’s pathetic attempt to pay back what money cannot purchase. She battles unmoved nursing home administrators and frigid social workers who pass the responsibility to help this poor man along to no one. The only success Resnick encounters comes from individuals reached through a synagogue outreach campaign.
Resnick leaves us wondering if she and Aron were “soul mates.” The drama we experience in this evolving relationship is both beautiful and wondrous. Resnick reveals her own emotional weaknesses and the powerful strength uncovered as she fights to save Aron from despair and an uncaring world. In her drive to save the last days of a charming but increasingly feeble Holocaust survivor, she discovers her own inner power. Just as she saves Aron at the end of his life, his love saves her at a time when she required it the most. Aron’s potent charm and his enduring love is exactly what Resnick’s fragile ego required. Desperately in need of someone to care for, Susan finds a lonely, damaged, charismatic old man who desperately needs someone to care and advocate for him. In the end, they were a perfect match, in a perfect time for each others’ emotional needs.
Resnick’s writing elucidates the complex permanent psychological trauma that Holocaust survivors typically endure. She displays this via a blunt presentation grounded in the artifacts of contemporary American lifestyle, but with painstaking expression of familial love in the time of Holocaust victims. Her writing is clear and concise, delving deeply into the psyche of two injured souls. Resnick’s style is evocative, sprinkled with generous humor and displaying remarkable insight. She reveals the scars of Aron’s death camp experiences without resorting to detailed descriptions of the horror and brutality. This is a necessary and vital part of the story and she carries it off without shocking the reader with gruesome details.
Aron lifted Susan from the depths of depression with enduring amity. Susan lifted Aron from the terror of his lifelong despair into a steadfast and lasting companionship. Apart, their lives might have faded into a dark unrelenting depression, with no end in sight. Together, the bond shared between them healed both of their wounds. A mature and enduring love remained. This is a story of life, love and fulfillment that will linger long after the book has been finished.
Charles S. Weinblatt is the author of Jacob’s Courage: A Holocaust Love Story (2007, Mazo Publishers).
October 26, 2012
I do not rate nonfiction, normally. I do not think I really have a right to tell someone that they did or did not tell their story to my satisfaction. You Saved Me, Too is a beautfuly uniqe book in that it is about true friendship in all its lovely chaos. Many times I found myself rereading passages trying to engrained them in my memory, touched by the honesty and power of the emotion, the struggle to find balance, beauty and truth.
On the surface Ms Resnick portrays the story of Aron, with honesty, affection, anger, and disbelief that carry the reader along, forgetting that they are a third party-outsiders. We grow our relationship with Aron slowly, getting to know him in bits and peices over time. We become his friend, we laugh with him and cry as he suffers but we are still are left with questions and unknowns, we are never in his head. It is the story not only of Aron's having survived the Holocaust but also of surviving the after, enduring the having survived. What would it be like to live with those memories, experiences and scars?
The story is not all Aron's. It is also the story of Sue, a young mother struggling with demons of her own. We see how she fights to pull her self out of depression and fear, out of the lost woman who does not quite fit the skin she has been born to. We watch as Aron gives her a focus, he pulls her out of her self just by being himself. As she struggles to put Aron's story together, to find the timeline of his life she finds a propose. She finds that giving of yourself when you don't even realize that you have anything to give can bring balance, blessing and healing.
Finally, Sue's goal and journey to give him a good death reminds us that we are quickly losing this generation, these witnesses, these survivors. And once they are gone who will remember them? Who will remember those they lost?
On the surface Ms Resnick portrays the story of Aron, with honesty, affection, anger, and disbelief that carry the reader along, forgetting that they are a third party-outsiders. We grow our relationship with Aron slowly, getting to know him in bits and peices over time. We become his friend, we laugh with him and cry as he suffers but we are still are left with questions and unknowns, we are never in his head. It is the story not only of Aron's having survived the Holocaust but also of surviving the after, enduring the having survived. What would it be like to live with those memories, experiences and scars?
The story is not all Aron's. It is also the story of Sue, a young mother struggling with demons of her own. We see how she fights to pull her self out of depression and fear, out of the lost woman who does not quite fit the skin she has been born to. We watch as Aron gives her a focus, he pulls her out of her self just by being himself. As she struggles to put Aron's story together, to find the timeline of his life she finds a propose. She finds that giving of yourself when you don't even realize that you have anything to give can bring balance, blessing and healing.
Finally, Sue's goal and journey to give him a good death reminds us that we are quickly losing this generation, these witnesses, these survivors. And once they are gone who will remember them? Who will remember those they lost?
February 11, 2013
I just finished Susan Resnick's memoir and biographical "sketch" and I miss Zoo and Aron already.
The book is a jigsaw puzzle of sorts and it works. Moving back and forth in time, between Resnick's story and Aron's, the pieces fit.
Aron's journey from the small town of Zychlin, to labor and concentration camps, culminating at Dachau, to his time in a DP facility and his eventual journey to America where he worked a variety of low-paying jobs while receiving checks from Hitler (so-called "reparation" for suffering), to his meeting Susan and her son Max by accident and the unfolding of their friendship and her caretaking of him in the four years before his death - all this and more are captured in exquisite, acerbic, hilarious detail.
A jounalist and professor, Resnick had to make countless phone calls and do countless hours of research to fill in pieces of Aron's life puzzle.
She succeeds admirably, clearly and passionately.
I loved reading some Yiddish again and remembered alot of the swear words.
Resnick's struggles with "being Jewish" (and with whatever all that can mean) and with depression are interwoven with Aron's story.
Sometimes people do find soulmates who somehow complete each other, even given gaps in age and experience.
The fierce battle she pitched for him and the fierce battle he pitched to live are well worth reading. about.
We may not be able to save each other, but we can sure help each other in loving kindness - and irony and humor.
The book is a jigsaw puzzle of sorts and it works. Moving back and forth in time, between Resnick's story and Aron's, the pieces fit.
Aron's journey from the small town of Zychlin, to labor and concentration camps, culminating at Dachau, to his time in a DP facility and his eventual journey to America where he worked a variety of low-paying jobs while receiving checks from Hitler (so-called "reparation" for suffering), to his meeting Susan and her son Max by accident and the unfolding of their friendship and her caretaking of him in the four years before his death - all this and more are captured in exquisite, acerbic, hilarious detail.
A jounalist and professor, Resnick had to make countless phone calls and do countless hours of research to fill in pieces of Aron's life puzzle.
She succeeds admirably, clearly and passionately.
I loved reading some Yiddish again and remembered alot of the swear words.
Resnick's struggles with "being Jewish" (and with whatever all that can mean) and with depression are interwoven with Aron's story.
Sometimes people do find soulmates who somehow complete each other, even given gaps in age and experience.
The fierce battle she pitched for him and the fierce battle he pitched to live are well worth reading. about.
We may not be able to save each other, but we can sure help each other in loving kindness - and irony and humor.
September 10, 2013
I finished this book a couple of days ago and have been missing Zoo and Aron ever since. The whole time I was reading, I felt like I could hear the two of them talking to each other. Their matching cynicism and humor jumped off the page and Resnick's choice to tell the tale as if she were still talking to her soulmate Aron made me feel as if I'd been part of their relationship from day one to the end. This is the story of the kind of friendship we all long for, one where all our warts and wrinkles are accepted along with our everyday courage and heroism. ,,lm
Resnick's research into Aron's life before and during the war added to the depth of the story, revealing not just his history, but her own innate journalistic sense. I loved the way she wove that history throughout the book, giving her readers Aron's past little by little so we could understand both the anxiety that plagued him and the generosity and humor that sustained him.
Resnick also bravely gives us an unvarnished view of her own straightforward, sometimes demanding, nature. She's not afraid to fight hard and to love deeply. Helping Aron was her way out of postpartum depression and her fight to give him the dignified death he deserved made her own life richer.
Great book! Don't let Holocaust angst scare you away; this book is a true love story.
Resnick's research into Aron's life before and during the war added to the depth of the story, revealing not just his history, but her own innate journalistic sense. I loved the way she wove that history throughout the book, giving her readers Aron's past little by little so we could understand both the anxiety that plagued him and the generosity and humor that sustained him.
Resnick also bravely gives us an unvarnished view of her own straightforward, sometimes demanding, nature. She's not afraid to fight hard and to love deeply. Helping Aron was her way out of postpartum depression and her fight to give him the dignified death he deserved made her own life richer.
Great book! Don't let Holocaust angst scare you away; this book is a true love story.
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October 8, 2012Advance review copy received from the publisher. The blurb I supplied is popping up (excerpted, as far as I've seen) now that the book is out. But here's the full text of what I wrote:
"This book will make you uncomfortable. It's not simply the horror of what Aron Lieb, who died at 91 in 2011, endured during the Holocaust. That story, or some variation of it, you probably know already. But the struggle to ensure that Aron's end-of-life days would be comfortable, dignified, and above all companioned--that's a lesser-known tale of survivor experience. That is Susan Kushner Resnick's key contribution--to the literature, and to Aron's life."
"This book will make you uncomfortable. It's not simply the horror of what Aron Lieb, who died at 91 in 2011, endured during the Holocaust. That story, or some variation of it, you probably know already. But the struggle to ensure that Aron's end-of-life days would be comfortable, dignified, and above all companioned--that's a lesser-known tale of survivor experience. That is Susan Kushner Resnick's key contribution--to the literature, and to Aron's life."
February 9, 2014
One of the occupational hazards of being a librarian is that the whole time you're reading a book, you're thinking about who you're going to recommend it to. You Saved Me, Too was a tough one to place. I loved it and I want to give it to just the right people who will appreciated it. Is it for avid Holocaust readers? Is it for Jews? Christians? People who like memoirs? People who have an elderly person in their lives? People who collect swears in foreign languages? Yes. All of those. It's a book about friendship, and I hope we ALL have some experience with that. I guess this wasn't such a tough one to place after all!
October 21, 2014
Estava empolgada com a leitura deste livro porque aborda um período histórico pelo qual me interesso, além de uma das personagens ser um sobrevivente dessa época.
Fiquei um pouco decepcionada com o livro, fala-nos da amizade entre uma jovem mãe e um velho sobrevivente do Holocausto, mas é só mesmo isso, não conta episódios empolgantes sobre a vida desse homem, nem tem a capacidade de nos emocionar, de nos arrancar um sorriso ou uma lágrima em determinados momentos da leitura.
Apesar de bem escrito, não me senti ligada à história nem ao livro como já me aconteceu anteriormente com livros semelhantes.
Não correspondeu às expectativas, talvez porque também as coloquei demasiado altas...
Fiquei um pouco decepcionada com o livro, fala-nos da amizade entre uma jovem mãe e um velho sobrevivente do Holocausto, mas é só mesmo isso, não conta episódios empolgantes sobre a vida desse homem, nem tem a capacidade de nos emocionar, de nos arrancar um sorriso ou uma lágrima em determinados momentos da leitura.
Apesar de bem escrito, não me senti ligada à história nem ao livro como já me aconteceu anteriormente com livros semelhantes.
Não correspondeu às expectativas, talvez porque também as coloquei demasiado altas...
June 18, 2012
Advance reading copy. Kushner Resnick and her dear friend Aron Lieb have a unique relationship. He's a Holocaust survivor with, of course, a horrible story which he shares with his friend during the course of their friendship. Luckily for us, she is a writer and shares his story and their story with the reader. While his memories are often painful he is a man full of life with an affinity for dancing. Kushner Resnick is witty with a voice you might not expect. I am learning a lot and really enjoying this book.
December 20, 2012
Just finished this book (that I won from Goodreads). I did enjoy the book, but it was hard to read because of the jumping around in time line. This is MY problem just because its hard for me to read and stay focused on non fiction. The jumping around in timeline just made it that much harder for me to focus. Once I began to read it more as a diary, it made it easier. I had a difficult time reading through the flashback portions because it made me emotional, but it was worth it. Overall a really good book! Definitely recommend it!
January 23, 2013
As a granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, I was interested to hear another person's story so detailed. As someone who grew up 500 feet from the JCC where all of this book started, I had extra intrigue. I really enjoyed the story and their relationship. I found there were a ton of overlaps in Aron's story compared to my Nana's and it made me think a lot. Some parts were hard to read, as they are in any Holocaust book, but it's important to talk about it, get it written down for generations to come to read and be familiar with this horrible piece of history.
October 1, 2013
This is a moving, heartfelt story that doesn't get overly sentimental. Aron Lieb ne Libfrajnd graduated from Auschwitz, Dachau, and many other atrocities. He died in Massachusetts at age 91. This is some of his story, told by a friend he made in the last 14 years of his life. No great mysteries are unveiled, this is a tribute book. Very well written, always on the edge of the end, built entirely around memories, this is not another holocaust book, it is a personal glimpse at what it means to be alive today. I recommend this book highly.
February 28, 2013
The author met Holocaust survivor Aaron one day when she was out with her young son. They started talking and ended up being close friends. The book goes back and forth from current day USA to WWII in concentration camps. The horror of what he experienced and how it affected him throughout his life was told through humor and caring on the part of the author. I could have done with less swearing throughout the book.
January 8, 2014
This amazing account,often told using "Eye of God"technique, is the gripping life of a young modern Jewish mother whose life becomes entwined with an elderly survivor of Auschwitz and other camps.Nearly all his family were victims of the Holocaust and his second wife is in a mental facility.Her humour and family life is mixed with the depths of his wisdom and personal flaws and easily draws us into an understanding of history that many of us don't easily digest. A must read.
November 30, 2012
This was a very interesting real story of a Holocaust survivor who makes friends with a young mother and writer. It is the story of their 15 year friendship. I often related to this story because it also talks about the trials of taking care of an adult in the last stage of life. A very good read.
June 27, 2014
Extraordinary voice - Kushner Resnick has me laughing and weeping. I recognize many Holocaust survivors I know (have known) in the portrait she has created of Aron. The give and take of their relationship is enviable - we all need someone who gets us and loves us anyway. "You Saved Me, Too" gives one hope that genuinely satisfying relationships are possible.
January 7, 2016
This is a powerful and emotional story about two people who crossed paths in a moment of time resulting in a friendship that would forever change their lives and make an extraordinary story. Holocaust survivor, Aron Lieb, will live on in many people's hearts. Thank you Susan for writing this story.
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October 26, 2012*** I received this book for free through Goodreads First Reads ***
** The Giveaway was Listed By Shana **
* I received my copy on Tue, Nov 06 2012 *
THANK YOU GOODREADS FIRST READS AND SHANA!
I will follow with a full review after reading.
** The Giveaway was Listed By Shana **
* I received my copy on Tue, Nov 06 2012 *
THANK YOU GOODREADS FIRST READS AND SHANA!
I will follow with a full review after reading.
December 8, 2013
A very sweet story of true friendship, an inevitable goodbye, the realities of aging and surviving the Holocaust, and what it means to try to get someone all that you believe he deserves. Poignant and snarky.
February 19, 2014
A small book with a big heart.
Unlike most holocaust books I have read, this one tells the story of a survivor who befriends a young mother at the local JCC - and the unique, rich relationship that develops from this chance encounter.
Unlike most holocaust books I have read, this one tells the story of a survivor who befriends a young mother at the local JCC - and the unique, rich relationship that develops from this chance encounter.
July 26, 2014
This book gave me a new understanding of what it means for someone to be a Holocaust survivor. Well written, the journal-like point of view gives tremendous insight into both the feelings of Aron and the author.
October 1, 2016
Authentic and realistic
Wonderfully written. A memoir of heartfelt realism about Holocaust survivors. I loved that the writer talks about Aron as if he's still with her. A must read.
Wonderfully written. A memoir of heartfelt realism about Holocaust survivors. I loved that the writer talks about Aron as if he's still with her. A must read.
July 26, 2012
A heartfelt chronicle of an unexpected, unconventional friendship that truly touched my heart!
October 20, 2012
Great book about a rich unexpected relationship. I am very proud of my childhood friend, the author!
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