A deeply moving story

Though I consumed this book in a matter of hours, I found it so emotionally Affecting That I had to stop and take a deep breath now and then, walk around the block, before I could continue reading. All the more compelling for its simple, honest style, this is a tale of extraordinary courage and perseverance on the part of Edith Hahn Beer. Would indeed more of her Austrian and German neighbors (of the "Aryan" stripe) had had a greater share of the Integrity Displayed by this woman. Her life irreparably fractured by events That Remain utterly vivid and disturbing 50-some years after the fact, she somehow Manages to astonishing degree of objectivity in her assessment of the evil forces arrayed against her and every other European Jew in Those very dark Decades. Definitely not a story for the fainthearted, this disturbing book and others like it need to be read and reread Precisely to help prevent Their repetition in the future.