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A Holocaust Memoir of Love & Resilience: Mama's Survival from Lithuania to America (Holocaust Survivor True Stories) Paperback – January 23, 2019

by Ettie Zilber (Author)
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With the Nazi occupation of Kovno (Lithuania), her life changed forever. Zlata Santocki Sidrer was Jewish, but she survived the horrors of the Holocaust. Gone was her normal life and her teenage dream of becoming a doctor. Instead, she witnessed untold deprivations, massacres, imprisonment, hunger and slave labor before being transported to the Stutthof Concentration Camp. Her story of the death march is a testament to her fighting spirit and the limits of human endurance. Yet the challenges did not end with liberation.

Lovingly compiled from recorded interviews and researched by her eldest daughter, Ettie, this is an account of a remarkably resilient woman who raised herself out of the ashes after unimaginable hardship and sorrow. She found love and happiness where none could be expected—a secret marriage in the ghetto, escapes, dangerous border crossings, reunifications, and life-saving friendships. Ettie’s quest to learn more about her ancestry led her to Lithuania and Poland–in her mother’s footsteps. The author reflects on the impact of her family’s experiences on her own beliefs and behaviors, thereby adding to the literature about Second Generation and transgenerational trauma.In these memoirs she honors her family by telling their amazing story of survival and collects evidence to corroborate their painful history.
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  3. Language
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    January 23, 2019
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  6. ISBN-10
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"Almost eight decades after the Holocaust, it is fading from memory and sometimes even unknown to younger generations - yet the details need to be maintained. Through first-person testimony and archival research, Love and Resilience is a formidable story of one woman's survival from Lithuania to America, told from her perspective as well as that of her Second Generation daughter. It's clear that future generations, just like this individual family, will be grateful this document exists."- Stephen E. Herbits, former Secretary-General, World Jewish Congress

A Holocaust Memoir of Love and Resilience is an utterly compelling contribution to Holocaust literature. In these pages, we are privy to crucial, daily triumphs and desolation of Jewish life in Lithuania both before and during the Holocaust through the vivid and haunting recollections of Dr. Zilber's mother. As the author revisits the geography of her parents' lives, she adds her own keen experiences and observations about the places where slaughter and survival still echo, and then the impact of the tragedies on her own life. - Rita Gabis, author of A Guest at the Shooter's Banquet: My Grandfather and the SS, My Jewish Family, A Search for the Truth

"There has never been a more urgent need for books like Dr. Ettie Zilber's. With more and more survivors gone, the second generation must carry the twin torches of memory and of hope. This faithful, meticulous, and pure-hearted book does both."- Sonia Taitz, author of The Watchmaker's Daughter and Great with Child This is an important record of the horrors of war and these books need to be read so that the same mistakes aren't made again. - Susan Roberts

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Her birth in a D.P. camp in Germany marked Ettie Zilber with a special responsibility. Retirement from a career as an educator in international schools in six countries has given her the opportunity to fulfill that responsibility --to research and document her family's Holocaust experiences -- and reflect on their impact on the next generation. The author of Third Culture Kids: Children of International School Educators, and numerous professional publications, conducts workshops on cross-cultural sensitivity, international-mindedness, tolerance and global citizenship for youth and adults. She lives in Arizona with her husband, and enjoys visits with her children and grandchildren.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amsterdam Publishers (January 23, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 230 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9493056023
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9493056022
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.7 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.52 x 9 inches
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Born in a displaced persons camp in Germany after World War 2, Ettie immigrated with her parents to the USA. She grew up and was educated in New York City and Pennsylvania and immigrated to Israel after completing graduate school. After retiring from a career in international schools in 6 countries, she currently resides in Arizona with her husband. She is a Board member for the Phoenix Holocaust Association and devotes much time to giving presentations to youth and adults worldwide. Contact Ettie for presentations for your schools, community centers and book clubs at aholocaustmemoir@gmail.com

She is also the author of TCKs: Children of International School Educators, and other professional publications (www.ettiezilber.com)

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Linda Layfield
5.0 out of 5 stars A True narrative of a Holocaust survivor
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2019
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Ettie's book is a very real first-person narrative of her mother's survival during the Holocaust. It is written in the mother's words, but it is about the Holocaust experience of many family members as well. The book shows an amazing ability to survive, do what needed to be done, and remain hopeful and positive regardless of separation from family members and dealing with all the horrors perpetrated against Jewish people. Her solution was to form very strong bonds with other women walking the same road as she. The hardship was very real and heart-wrenching. It is very well documented with footnotes and references. The book is in 3 parts. After the mother's story, part 2 is about the eldest daughter's 3-week travel to Lithuania and Poland with a long list of names, places, dates, and events. With the help of a guide and visits to Holocaust museums and digging into historical archives she was able to confirm her mother's story and make a few editorial changes to some details. Part 3 was an interesting analysis of the impact on the lives of the children of Holocaust-surviving parents. (The author was actually born in a Displaced Person's camp in Europe after the war ended before her parents---reunited only after the war---immigrated to the US.) Ettie researched this aspect within her own family and with other families living in NYC.
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Maria D. Mastrippolito
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent survival story
Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2020
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I liked how the author recounted her mother's memories of her early life. She grew up in Lithuania, when it was taken over by the Germans. She and her family were placed in the ghetto, then sent to different concentration camps. She married in the ghetto, and reunited with her husband and his parents after the war. In her immediate family, only the mother and sister survived.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A moving personal story of Lithuanian Holocaust
Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2020
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The book’s structure is unique, intriguing and keep you captivated from the beginning to the end. The first part is a great example of oral history in the words of the author’s mother. I read stories of Holocaust survivors before but the personal sufferings with the incredible moments of joy and desire for life comes always to me as new, this is no exception.
Then comes the surprising second part, with the “detective” journey of the author who walks the footsteps of her mother rediscovering places and circumstances like they were hers. This is journey of the second generation of those who were born in a camp during the war, as the case of the author, or right after the war. For them it is matter of understanding and remember, for us to walk along and do not forget.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Lithuanian Survivor History and the Next Generations
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This book is divided into two parts. The first one is the amazing and sad story of the author’s mother’s survival. The second part is a second generation account of being a child of survivors. The author was actually born in a German Displaced Persons Camp, after the Nazis’ defeat.
This was an interesting analysis of how survivor’s children are influenced by their parents’ wartime experiences.
She also visits Lithuania and Poland, and retraces her mother’s progression from a happy prewar life in Lithuania, to a forced ghetto, concentration and work camps, and a horrible winter death march, before liberation.
I admire what the author has done, and recommend the book. I would have formatted it differently, with pictures during the narrative, instead of the end, for context. During her mother’s memoir, the extensive footnote information could have been incorporated into the text, with just reference footnotes at the end. This would have made it easier to read.
Overall, a huge undertaking for the author to retrace and reconstruct this family’s survivor history There weren’t many Lithuanian Jewish survivors, as the vast majority were murdered during WWII, making this history even more important.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Holocaust Memoir
Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2019
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This is an important Holocaust memoir because it tells a tale not often told. It is about the author's mother in Lithuania who survived the most horrendous treatment by the Germans. Not many people are aware of the Lithuanians massacre of Jews during the German occupation of Lithuania. The author visited Lithuania and traced her mother's steps as she walked on her "death march.' She visited places her mother had told her about and even found her mother's records in the Stutthof concentration camp.

It is a heart-warming read of a daughter's love of her mother and her tribute to her memory. I admit that I cried over many passages. This is a must read!!!
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Barbara Hatch
4.0 out of 5 stars How the Holocaust affected the children of the survivors
Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2020
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I am glad that Ettie was able to get her mother's story so she could share it with everyone who needs to learn about the Holocaust. I especially appreciated the journey she took to "walk in her mother's footsteps" to understand the impact being the child of two survivors left on her. I have read many books describing the circumstances of the Polish Jews, but I have never read about the circumstances of the Jews in Lithuania. I did not know about the massacres that took place in the forts. The inability of the Russians to allow Jews to leave Lithuania once they ousted the Germans was quite interesting. People caught between two warring forces! I recommend you read this book to get some perspective on the Jewish populations in Lithuania. Now I want to find out more about those in Latvia and Estonia!
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Sweetestmoondust
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely amazing
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 10, 2022
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This book is absolutely amazing. Full of historical interest that are important to everyone to read. It's an important read
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Elle C.
5.0 out of 5 stars Well done
Reviewed in Canada on March 15, 2020
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Well...what to say here. Words can't even describe. I have only read one other book about this event and that is Anne Frank. The thing about these books is that they're not just made up from a person's mind, these are told stories of actual events. This memoir was well written, and very educational. There were things I was clearly not in the know of such as locations etc. While reading I had to google images etc. I can't even fathom the things people had to go through, and the strength one would have to have. It's at the same time both something you want to continue to the end, and something that makes the knot in your stomach beg you to stop. I finished until the end. This book has a full range of emotions. How can it be anything other than a 5 star. In actuality, these reminiscent tales shouldn't be classified by a star rating - they just ARE, if that makes sense. They are truth; they are real; they are tragedy, and for some they are survival.
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Klemens Büsch
5.0 out of 5 stars Voice of the Second Generation
Reviewed in Germany on January 4, 2021
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A necessary, impressing, and wonderful book which tells the truth und gives hope.

As time moves forward and the last few survivors of the Shoah are passing away, it becomes more necessary that others take their place and tell their stories. Ettie Zilber is one of them. In this book she tells the story of her parents. Through the perspective of her mother’s eyes, we learn about the fate of the Jews in Lithuania, and about the incredibly moving story of Ettie’s parents who survived the hell of Nazi-occupation, war, and concentration camp. It is unbelievable and breath taking, how the twists of fate saved the lives of the young couple Zilber.
In the second part of the book Ettie Zilber takes on a narrative, which can rarely be found. She tells the story of her journey becoming a Second Generation Witness. It is not only her impressive report on her travels to the places where her parents story took place, but Ettie also takes the reader along as she starts reflecting on her role as the child of her parents, bearing witness as the Second Generation of Jews.

I can only recommend this book to all who would like to have a real, authentic, moving impression of the horrible impact the Shoah had on the lives of millions, and to all those who would like to get an idea of what remembrance could look like in the future without the testimonial of the survivors themselves.
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WendyUk
3.0 out of 5 stars Very informative book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 12, 2022
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I would recommend this book to people who have never read a book about the holocaust as it is so detailed and would make a good starting point hopefully to carry on reading more about peoples personal experiences of the holocaust.
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jb58
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully detailed
Reviewed in Canada on March 29, 2020
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What a wonderful book. I am always humbled by Holocaust accounts and pray no one should ever have to go through this. Thank you.
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