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The Strength of Hope

By: Fiona Harris, Abram Goldberg
Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
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Summary

The day Abram and his mother arrived at Auschwitz death camp, they both knew it would be her last. In their final moment together, Abram's mum urged her nineteen-year-old son to 'Do everything humanly possible to survive, and tell people what happened here.' Then she was taken to a gas chamber and murdered. Abram had already endured and survived so much until that moment but with his strength of hope, sometimes reduced to a flicker, he survived.

After liberation, Abram travelled back and forth across Europe, doing secret underground work and getting into dangerous scrapes. He met the love of his life, fellow Auschwitz survivor, Cesia, and the young couple made their way to Australia. Without bitterness and always with perspective, Abram has never forgotten his mother's last words to him. Abram and Cesia have remained dedicated to educating people about the Holocaust and to living their lives to the fullest in tribute to its victims.

Full of wisdom, insight and daring, with a love story at its heart: for Cesia, for Australia and for life itself.

©2022 Abram Golberg and Fiona Harris (P)2022 W F Howes
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absolutely loved every minute of this book. I wish everyone had a bram and his wife's morals

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story, heart-wrenching at times with what their went through during the war. Heartwarming after the war and the love for each other. The narrator was very good.

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Never Give Up!

It is almost unbelievable that a Holocaust survivor who lost practically his entire family has not sunk into bitterness, resentment or even hatred. Abram Goldberg made his father's positive thinking, his commitment to others and his mother's last wish before she perished in the gas chambers of Auschwitz his own life's mission and also put it into practice. Before they were separated she said to him: "Abram, do everything humanly possible to survive. And when you do, wherever you find yourself, you must tell people what happened here so it can never happen again."

Abram Goldberg repeatedly mentions that he is lucky. Not only lucky to have survived the Holoaust, but also lucky to have found shortly after the liberation Cesia, the love of his life. A beautiful, never sentimental 75-year love story.

The book does have some lengths and repetitions. But it touched me incredibly! Above all, it shook me up: How quickly this terrible period is perhaps not forgotten, but has faded into the background...
And: I will also always remember Abram's repeated sentence "Not every day will be a sunny day. There will be overcast days, but the sun will shine again".

Last but not least, Saul Reichlin's narration is again just perfect.

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Bravery, persistence, love.

I liked all of the above in the author and his wife and friends. The young of today could learn a lot from these people. Bless them.

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