Book Review: Living Among the Dead

Living among the Dead:

My Grandmother’s Holocaust Survival Story of Love and Strength

Amsterdam Publishers

(May 9, 2020)

I am reviewing a copy of Living among the Dead through Amsterdam Publishers and Netgalley:

Living Among the Dead is Adena Bernstein Astrowsky’s loving and careful reflection of passages from her grandmother’s private journal that Mania Lichtenstein kept as a way of coping with the memories of what she’d survived in World War II.

Living Among the Dead is the story of Mania, the sole Holocaust Survivor or her family. She adored her sisters and had to read whatever it was they were reading.

At a young age in life, Mania was left alone, in a room full of strangers, they would eventually liberate themselves. Out of the 26,000 people who lived in Włodzimierz, Wolynski, Mania estimated that only fifteen to twenty youth had survived.

Mania would later come to America and build a family, making sure that her Children and Grandchildren did not forget there history.

I give Living Among the Dead five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!