Hope is the Last to Die by Halina Birenbaum

Hope is the Last to Die Reviews

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  Daniel Macleod

  This was a powerful and extremely personal account of the horrors humanity can descend into if allowed. On the contrary this read displays the heroic and marvelling companionship, love and affection people can show for one another in the most dire circumstances.
  
  This book is a must read, a pillar for the vitality of remembering past horrors to prevent awful crimes against humanity happening again.
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  Desi A

  It took my a while to track down this book. Last year I found and bought and re-read Stolen Years by Sara Zyskind and when I realized that everything I remembered wasn't in *that* book, I realized that there must have been *another* Holocaust memoir that I read in the same time period (7th/8th grade), which is not surprising.
  
  Anyway, remembering the person's first name and that she was in Warsaw, not Lodz, helped me track it down and this in fact was the one.
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  Matt J

  Five stars.
  I bought this book with one other at the Auschwitz-Birkeanu bookshop at the camp, in Poland. The most important bookshop in the world?
  This book and all others like it are unprecedented! A most important document to the evil of people. An evil that is repeating itself today.
  Saying that this book and the author show that there is always hope, and blind luck!
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  Grace Akkad

  I was lucky enough to meet the author in Auschwitz and was apalled by her story so much that I bought this book in the Auschwitz/Birkenau book shop.
  Halina’s close relationship with her mom and her family is so pure and its a light in dark times.
  The amount of camps Halina was in is proof of her resilience of horrors.