Transcending Darkness

Mama, I dont want to live like this, pleaded twelve-year-old Estelle Glasers older sister as they watched the bodies of friends dangle from the gibbet in the center of Warsaws Apel Platz. I cannot take the indignities and brutalities. Lets step forward and make them kill us now. But Estelles mother fiercely responded to her two daughters: No! Life is sacred. It is noble to fight to stay alive. Their mothers indomitable will was a major factor in the trios survival in the face of brutal odds. Estelles memoir, published sixty-four years after their liberation from the concentration camp, is a narrative of fear and hope and resiliency. While it is a harrowing tale of destruction and loss, it is also a story of the goodness that still exists in a dark world.