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Living Among the Dead:
My Grandmother’s Holocaust Survival Story of Love and Strength
Holocaust Survivor True Stories WWII Book 3
by Adena Bernstein Astrowsky
Genre: Biography, Memoir
This is the story of one remarkable young woman’s unimaginable journey through the rise of the Nazi regime, the Second World War, and the aftermath. Mania Lichtenstein’s dramatic story of survival is narrated by her granddaughter and her memories are interwoven with beautiful passages of poetry and personal reflection. Holocaust survivor Mania Lichtenstein used writing as a medium to deal with the traumatic effects of the war.
Many Jews did not die in concentration camps, but were murdered in their lifelong communities, slaughtered by mass killing units, and then buried in pits. As a young girl, Mania witnessed the horrors while doing everything within her power to subsist. She lived in Włodzimierz, north of Lvov (Ukraine), was interned for three years in the labor camp nearby, managed to escape and hid in the forests until the end of the war.
Although she was the sole survivor of her family, Mania went on to rebuild a new life in the United States, with a new language and new customs, always carrying with her the losses of her family and her memories.
Seventy-five years after liberation, we are still witnessing acts of cruelty born out of hatred and discrimination. Living among the Dead reminds us of the beautiful communities that existed before WWII, the lives lost and those that lived on, and the importance to never forget these stories so that history does not repeat itself.
*2020 Reader’s Favorite Gold Medal Winner in the Non-Fiction – Biography Genre!!
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Adena Astrowsky has dedicated her career to helping the most vulnerable of our society. She did this by prosecuting child sexual abuse cases and domestic violence cases within the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office. She became the local expert concerning the prosecution of domestic violence related strangulation cases and taught extensively on that subject. Currently, she handles post-conviction cases on appeal and foreign extradition cases. Adena taught Sunday School at her temple for eight years, and in her last two years she co-taught “Character Development Through the Studies of the Holocaust.” Adena contributes articles to MASK (Mothers Awareness on School-age Kids) Magazine, often writing about children’s safety, drugs, law and order, etc. Once a month Adena volunteers at a local Scottsdale library with her therapy dog, Charlie, as part of the Tail Waggin’ Tales Program. Adena has also chaired events to raise money for the Emily Center of Phoenix Children’s Hospital. Adena’s greatest role, however, is as the mother of three very active children. She, and her husband, Brad, are kept very busy with their respective dance, theater, music, and athletic activities.
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Thank you so much. I hope you enjoy my book. – Adena Astrowsky
Mania Lichtenstein sounds like a remarkable woman. I wish Ms. Astrowsky all the best on this recent release.
Thank you! My grandmother was an amazing person who loved us, her family very much. I appreciate your comment.
This sounds like a powerful read, Laura! Thanks for sharing 😁
My grandmother’s family lived in this part of then Poland and witnessed such atrocities, such groups practising ethnic cleansing. Some family were slaughtered in a barn before Christmas by these bands.
I am sorry to read what your family also experienced. It was absolutely horrific.
A meaningful and profound story which I look forward to reading. This memoir sounds unforgettable and memorable. Being Jewish I read hundreds of memoirs, biographies and holocaust novels. Thanks you for the fascinating feature. Congratulations and best wishes on this release. The author is extremely talented and the talks would be extraordinary. My ancestors cane from Poland and emigrated in the 1920’s. Eastern European and 100% Ashkenazi.
Thank you so much for the comments. I appreciate you taking the time to write them.
Great cover! Sounds like a great historical read.
Thank you! The cover was almost magical! Approximately a year after my grandmother passed away I was looking through her photo albums which my mother inherited. I saw this photo, which strangely enough, I had never seen before. I love the cars in the background. But more importantly, I love the look of freedom on my grandmother’s face and she hold my mother’s three year old hand. This was taken in Berlin in the late 1940s.
between the title and the cover i am very curious
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Thank you! I just explained the cover a bit to another person that made a similar comment. I hope you can read it and I hope you enjoy the book.
Sounds good.