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Still Alive by Ruth Kluger Book Summary
A controversial bestseller likened to Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, Still Alive is a harrowing and fiercely bittersweet Holocaust memoir of survival: "a book of breathtaking honesty and extraordinary insight" (Los Angeles Times).
Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Ruth Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence systematically undermined and destroyed. By age eleven, she had been deported, along with her mother, to Theresienstadt, the first in a series of concentration camps which would become the setting for her precarious childhood.
Interwoven with blunt, unsparing observations of childhood and nuanced reflections of an adult who has spent a lifetime thinking about the Holocaust, Still Alive rejects all easy assumptions about history, both political and personal. Whether describing the abuse she met at her own mother's hand, the life-saving generosity of a woman SS aide in Auschwitz, the foibles and prejudices of Allied liberators, or the cold shoulder offered by her relatives when she and her mother arrived as refugees in New York, Kluger sees and names an unexpected reality which has little to do with conventional wisdom or morality tales.
"Among the reasons that Still Alive is such an important book is its insistence that the full texture of women's existence in the Holocaust be acknowledged, not merely as victims. . . . [Kluger] insists that we look at the Holocaust as honestly as we can, which to her means being unsentimental about the oppressed as well as about their oppressors." —Washington Post Book World
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| Book Name | Still Alive |
| Genre | Religious Bios & Memoirs |
| Author | Ruth Kluger |
| Published | 01 April 2003, Tuesday |
| Language | English |
| E-Book Size | 769.55 KB |
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Excellent. This is an excellent read. I don't understand the previous review.. This is one of the most honest memoirs I have read. Of course she has some issues.. Her childhood was the holocaust. She goes on to be a successful person who continues to deal with things from her past. I would love to be able to take a trip overseas & visit the camps although I know I can never truly comprehend. As I am a single mother of 2 and a nurse, I don't think it's a trip I will be taking. Excellent book!
Depressing. I have a very keen interest in the holocaust and survivors. I have read many books on the subject and have always been overwhelmed that out of such dire circumstances, people survived. Not only survived, but thrived, had hope, and eventually dared to be happy in spite of the sadness in their lives. This book was different. The child that entered the concentration camps was so psychologically damaged by her unfortunate circumstances that she emerges broken for life. Yes she succeeds on a professional level, but her personal life is not filled with happiness or joy, but is instead filled with bitterness and negativity. As a result, her story is depressing. For the first time reading a survivor's story I do not like the survivor! Real life, yes. Unfortunate, but true, not all survivors came out of the ordeal unscathed. This author will forever carry the wounds and scars of her ordeal, and they are not pretty.
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The Still Alive book written by Ruth Kluger was published on 01 April 2003, Tuesday in the Religious Bios & Memoirs category. A total of 187 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.
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