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There Will Be Tomorrow: A Memoir
August, 1944, Auschwitz. The skinny little girl with dark eyes looks nine rather than her real age of fourteen. Flanked on either side by her older cousins, Inka and Carmella, she has survived yet another selection for the gas chambers. Inka maintains that when the SS man passes in front of Guta, an angel’s hand covers his eyes so that he cannot choose her. And so it seems. All the horrors and cruelty, miraculously, do not crush this remarkable child. We are left in awe at her resilient, life-affirming spirit.
Guta Goldstein focuses her story through the eyes of the child she then was, and she tells it with skill, humility and grace. Her gift restores one more previous piece to the shattered mosaic, and we are thankful. —Alex Skovron
With an excellent memory and a perceptive eye for detail, Guta tells her story. Throughout the dark madness of the Ghetto and concentration camps, Guta's pure spirit shines like a beam of light, maintaining the higher qualities to which humans aspire. This is an uplifting book that will bring tears to the eyes of any reader. —Mimi Roennfeldt
Guta Goldstein focuses her story through the eyes of the child she then was, and she tells it with skill, humility and grace. Her gift restores one more previous piece to the shattered mosaic, and we are thankful. —Alex Skovron
With an excellent memory and a perceptive eye for detail, Guta tells her story. Throughout the dark madness of the Ghetto and concentration camps, Guta's pure spirit shines like a beam of light, maintaining the higher qualities to which humans aspire. This is an uplifting book that will bring tears to the eyes of any reader. —Mimi Roennfeldt
178 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 29, 2016
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November 13, 2021
There Will Be Tomorrow: A Memoir is by Guta Goldstein. Guta Goldstein was born in 1930 in Poland. For the next four years, she was an only child and then her sister Munia was born. Her life prior to World War II was almost ideal. As most people, her family had its ups and downs but most of the sad things were hidden from children during this time. She played with her friends and went to school. In 1937, her mother died of pneumonia and she and her sister lived with relatives until her father remarried. Guta didn’t like the idea of a stepmother; but her stepmother put the children first and made the transition easy for the girls.
When Guta was nine, World War II began and her life changed drastically. Her family was moved to the Lodz Ghetto. When their father died of pneumonia, Guta and her sister were moved to a children’s camp. Her sister died while they were in this camp. Here she stayed until just before the Children’s Action. Her Aunt came one night and brought Guta and two cousins back to the Ghetto. The next morning, the children’s camp was liquidated. Once more, Guta was saved. The next selection put all of them on a train to Auschwitz. Here, her aunt was selected for death; but Guta was left with two cousins and a friend. With the help of sympathetic workers, the four managed to survive. Guta was only fifteen when she was liberated.
The book is well-written and it is written in such a straightforward manner that the reader can visualize all she is talking about. This is the type of memoir we need, one that states the facts with a little emotion. The starkness of her story makes it more believable. The book is well worth reading.
When Guta was nine, World War II began and her life changed drastically. Her family was moved to the Lodz Ghetto. When their father died of pneumonia, Guta and her sister were moved to a children’s camp. Her sister died while they were in this camp. Here she stayed until just before the Children’s Action. Her Aunt came one night and brought Guta and two cousins back to the Ghetto. The next morning, the children’s camp was liquidated. Once more, Guta was saved. The next selection put all of them on a train to Auschwitz. Here, her aunt was selected for death; but Guta was left with two cousins and a friend. With the help of sympathetic workers, the four managed to survive. Guta was only fifteen when she was liberated.
The book is well-written and it is written in such a straightforward manner that the reader can visualize all she is talking about. This is the type of memoir we need, one that states the facts with a little emotion. The starkness of her story makes it more believable. The book is well worth reading.
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December 13, 2023(I choose not to rate the literary value of a Holocaust memoir)
I first read Guta’s memoir some years ago, before having had the privilege of volunteering with her at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum and hearing her deliver her testimony to school groups. Reading it now, I am again struck by the beauty of her articulate narrative, by her precise recollection of the details of her early childhood, and by her willingness to share the horror of the Holocaust years.
Her experiences after the Nazi occupation of Poland, her crystal-clear memories of the deprivations of life in the Ghetto, of the death of her beloved mother and, later, of her father and dear sister, Munia, and of her incarceration in the camps, all attest to her resilience and deep gratitude to her Aunt Golda, who had saved her life several times. In her delivered testimony to school groups, Guta chooses not to detail her time in Auschwitz-Birkenau, but her miraculous survival of its horror is shared in the memoir. What shines through both her delivered testimony and written account are Guta’s strength and deep commitment to life.
I first read Guta’s memoir some years ago, before having had the privilege of volunteering with her at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum and hearing her deliver her testimony to school groups. Reading it now, I am again struck by the beauty of her articulate narrative, by her precise recollection of the details of her early childhood, and by her willingness to share the horror of the Holocaust years.
Her experiences after the Nazi occupation of Poland, her crystal-clear memories of the deprivations of life in the Ghetto, of the death of her beloved mother and, later, of her father and dear sister, Munia, and of her incarceration in the camps, all attest to her resilience and deep gratitude to her Aunt Golda, who had saved her life several times. In her delivered testimony to school groups, Guta chooses not to detail her time in Auschwitz-Birkenau, but her miraculous survival of its horror is shared in the memoir. What shines through both her delivered testimony and written account are Guta’s strength and deep commitment to life.
April 24, 2023
Terror in WW11
This is about what happened to a women in WW11.
From her child hood, friends, family, and what it was like to be raised Jewish.
So lucky to live and have grandchildren to tell her life to.
A slow story to me but so happy she made it out of the camps.
This is about what happened to a women in WW11.
From her child hood, friends, family, and what it was like to be raised Jewish.
So lucky to live and have grandchildren to tell her life to.
A slow story to me but so happy she made it out of the camps.
April 1, 2022
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This book has the horrors of life in the Holocaust, but also the little things that helped save 4 young people.
This book has the horrors of life in the Holocaust, but also the little things that helped save 4 young people.
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