Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Search - Facing History and Ourselves: I Promised I Would Tell

Facing History and Ourselves: I Promised I Would Tell
Facing History and Ourselves I Promised I Would Tell
Author: Sonia Schreiber Weitz, Susan Belt Cogley
Through poetry and testimony, Sonia Schreiber Weitz gives life to the millions of children, men and women who were murdered during the Holocaust. Sonia was 11 years old when her family and other Polish Jews were herded into ghettos and forced to live in treacherous conditions that often led to death. Of the 84 members of her family, Sonia and he...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780961584139
ISBN-10: 0961584130
Publication Date: 8/1/1993
Pages: 105
Rating:
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
 1

5 stars, based on 1 rating
Publisher: Facing History & Ourselves Natl
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
Reviews: Member | Amazon | Write a Review

Top Member Book Reviews

reviewed Facing History and Ourselves: I Promised I Would Tell on + 155 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Only 11 when her family was forced into the Krakow ghetto by the Nazis, the author spent her early teen years in five concentration camps: Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Mauthausen, Plaszow and Venusberg. She was liberated with her sister Blanca in 1945, the sole surviving members of her family. Forbidden to own paper or writing tools in the camps, Sonia continued to "write" her memories and poems in her head until she could commit them to paper after the war. Eventually she immigrated to the U.S., and in her later years helped found Holocaust institutions to preserve the legacy of that time and help educate others. A moving story of a young girl in a terrible time.
Read All 1 Book Reviews of "Facing History and Ourselves I Promised I Would Tell"


Genres: