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|title=The Testimony

|sort=Testimony

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=9781742703572

|pages=208

|publisher=Hardie Grant Books

|date=September 2012

|summary=The life of a Holocaust survivor that carries on much further, showing the growth of a warm, humanitarian heart that could not be extinguished.

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The Holocaust must have been particularly horrendous for the young survivor. Halina here says how she had barely three years of schooling before the events of the Final Solution took over, and her life was changed for ever. It was a life a little different to those around her – a nanny who took her to a cathedral and brought her home full of the Catholic anti-Semitic sentiment. Religion and its effects were of little consequence – she was more worried that those seeing a photo of her and a dog had more admiration for the look of the dog than of her. But things were only to change for the worst – existence in the Lodz ghetto, and later, the death camps. This book is just not arch enough to be too structured and self-aware, so when Halina sees those by tram travelling through the ghetto and wonders what the life of the gentiles on it is like, this only provides one small glimpse of how her life turned into one of those thinking of and helping others, with special affinity for those in minorities everywhere.

[[Treblinka: A Survivor's Memory by Chil Rajchman]] does not get as far as discussing much post-Holocaust life, but is utterly horrific testimony of just how much death was in the death camps.

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