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This book is a piece of art and one of the most comprehensive on this amazing woman. It was an inspiring read! I recommend it everyone!

This is a book I intended to glance over just to look at the art, but ended up reading it cover to cover until 3 in the morning. It is a in depth look at this amazing woman's life, as well as the beautiful art she created. This is a must read for anyone wanting to learn about history, and how people cope with major events in their lives.

At first I thought the book, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis by Elena Makarova and Regina Seidman Miller, was just a beautiful exhihibition catalogue.There are hundreds of color plates of paintings so rich in imagination and expressive beauty, and there are designs for theater and costumes as well as plans for houses and rooms. She brought her unique inspirational creativity to every aspect of her life--creating order out of chaos. This was wonderful in itself,but as I read it I realized it was an inspirational biography, the life story of a creative, artistic spirit who despite the most impossible circumstances, which grew more and more intolerable, continued to work creatively and what's more, to teach others--children whose lives had been devastated. For those who managed to survive-- their memories of her are recorded here too. They were forever changed by having been influenced by her and the invaluable medicine she provided. The book offers insight into the influences on her own art education and the development of her approach to inspiring the creativity of children, a wonderful guide for anyone working in an artistic capacity with children. There are so many revealing letters and photographs of hers, and her friends, and from the children she taught which capture so much about this mysterious, irrepressible woman. The book is a treasure, a reassurance. I feel I must hold it close to remind myself that despite the evil in the world there are human beings have wonderful spirit and creative talent, and it will endure despite everything.

It is hard to believe that this woman, artist, inventor, and heroine is not better known in the eyes and hearts of the world. As an educator and member of the Jewish community, I am shocked that I wasn't even aware of the remarkable contributions made by Friedl Dicker-Brandeis. The works portrayed in this book, the heartfelt letters she wrote, and the historical expose of Friedl's life were enriching. She has brought inspiration to many and should continue to be revered as a talented saint. Thank you Regina Seidman Miller and Elena Makarova for opening our eyes to such a remarkable woman of our past.

This book is a piece of art and one of the most comprehensive on this amazing woman. It was an inspiring read! I recommend it everyone!

My purpose here is to inform the interested public that Dr. Perl's 1948 book is NOT out of print. You may purchase the paperback reprint directly from the publisher, Ayer Co. Publishers, in North Stratford, N.H. The book retails at $19.95. To order a copy, call customer service at: 603-669-7032 and give them ISBN 978-0405123009.

I'll be back to write my review after the book arrives and I've had a chance to read it. I did recently watch the DVD of Dr. Perl's story, "Out of the Ashes." I'm expecting much from the book because the movie earned a 5-star rating from me.

Dr. Perl wrote skillfully and with clarity of the horrors of Nazi concentration camps. Auschwitz was pergatory and Bergen Belsen was hell. She told it just as it was with very little digression into unrelated subject matter. As Matt stated in his review...she writes as a surgeon, always cutting to the core of the story she had to relate. I must agree that this is one of the very finest books I've read by a survivor, albeit there are a great many. The many very talented and wonderful women that fought to live and failed in their quest will break your heart. Dr. Perl tells of the spirits of these women and the great loss to the world of the multitudes of talented and wonderful people put to death by these butchers. The book was reprinted in 1997 by Ayer Company Publishers, Inc. in North Stratford, NH, and I cannot understand why it is so difficult to find today. My most generous thanks to those who supplied me a copy of this marvelous testimony for my library.

Read dear Lucille Eichengreen's book, FROM ASHES TO LIFE. It too is a valuable historical testimony. Then get ECHOES FROM AUSCHWITZ by wonderful Eva Mozes Kor, which is the story of Eva and Miriam Mozes, two of Mengele's twins. Excellent!

I am not one to complement with ease, but the personal perspective afforded to us by Dr. Perl's beautiful and clear articulation is unforgable. The book is horrific, yet painfully honest and objective. She focuses little on her own suffering and tries her hardest to portray life in the women's camp generally.

She is undoubtedly a heroine...

This hard-to-find autobiography of Gisella Perl is well worth the trouble you may have in obtaining it, and it is in a different league than the simplistic movie, "Out of Ashes", which was very loosely based on it. It tells the story of a female Jewish doctor who is deported to Auschwitz and manages to survive as one of the camp's prisoner doctors. The peculiar dehumanization and agony of the concentration camp experience are described in detail, as is her interaction with notorious Auschwitz SS personnel Joseph Mengele and Irma Grese. The physical and mental struggles of herself and her fellow-sufferers are described in moving, human terms. This testimony is of particular value to historians because it was written only a short time after the Holocaust, not generations later.

This true story MUST be told and read by everyone! What horrors took place and how Dr. Perl was involved and what she saw, unbelieveably moving. I cried. If you can not find or afford to buy this book...get the DVD movie "Out of the Ashes" which does a good job of retelling the story.

Le Café de Cadix by Pierrette Lili Camps

This was a very interesting book. The time frame begins around World War II and comes to the current period. The author vividly describes her life in Algiers. Although many times it is difficult to do in a biographical sketch, the author makes her characters come alive for the reader. As you read though the book you soon become one with it. Too often we have forgotten where we come from, I am thankful that Pierrette has not. You find yourself sitting in the café viewing what's going on. You see the people as they struggle to continue their lives amidst the confusion that war brings. You see Pierette grow up before your eyes and fall in love. You see her brother set out on the course that takes him to France.
One of the great things, about the book, is the acceptance of people. You see people of different nationalities, different religious backgrounds and class levels living in harmony until the war changes things. You see them all be forced from that lifestyle to something different. You feel the heartache and the joy as you follow them through the author's eyes.
Sharing with the author, I discovered that she left out many horrors from this autobiography that she experienced because of the tremendous sadness it brought back to her.
I would recommend this book to anyone, on any reading level, especially if you like historical material. The insight that this book gives the reader is well worth the time it takes to read it.

`LeCAFE de CADIX' is an autobiography, travel guide, history and prophecy all wrapped up in one fascinating book. It is an alluring account of a family caught up in the tribulations of trying to survive during the years before and after the French exodus from Algiers. While one of the last vestiges of colonialism was crumbling, a family manages to salvage their future in a land filled with desperation and despair. They did it with love, humor and unfailing determination as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse stormed through and ravished their land. This close family endured to finally achieve what so many people lost. `LeCafe de Cadix' will live on in the minds of those who are fortunate enough to read this very captivating book. 'LeCafe de Cadix' would make a great movie.

We all need air to breathe, food to eat, the need to feel clothed, secure, and be loved to live, at least to live fully. At different times in Pierrette Lili Camps young life she lacked one or more of these at all times. Most of us have lacked one or another in each of our lifetimes, but possibly not due to drastic causes the way Pier(as she was called) endured.

Just before and during World War II, less goods due to rationing, complicated by the black-market trading by the marketers caused many to go hungry and sent dear Pier to bed crying with hunger.

During air rade warnings the Lili Camps often ran to a tunnel where the townspeople all gathered for safety. On one horrific night, smoke filled the tunnel and in a desperate attempt to escape, Pier held on to her four year old brother as he held tight around her neck until she no longer could hold him and he began to slip from her arms. He held on for his life and they both did escape although she knew the clumps and lumpy things under her feet were not the usual rocks that she walked over before. Later her father told her that fifty people died that night trying to escape the noxious fumes. That was a heart wrenching account as told by Pier.

Pierrette describes many things, the town, its' people, with its' multicultural and ethnicity, her school days, the work in the cafe, Le Cafe de Cadix, owned by her parents, beautiful nurse Rose and Salvador, her handsome dad. She speaks of Germaine her sister, and her twin brothers Denis and Guy.Pier speaks of many with much love and respect, and candidly about others that did not deserve niceties said about them.

She speaks of the American GI's, one in particular ( John Komarek) whom she falls in love with, marries and after much difficulty in getting to America finally manages to get reunited with her love of a lifetime that has thus far lasted 63 years with blessings of five daughters and one son.

This is a remarkable account of a young woman's life whose strength and fortitude was evident from the beginning as a young child. Those qualities with her faith that with God's help she could endure anything is what has made her one of the most intriguing and intelligent women I have ever read about. This is her life story and one she should most certainly be proud to hand down to her descendents.

I recommend this book as an exceptional read for anyone. I feel honored and a "little smarter" by having read this historical account of life during World War II in the Mediterranean town of Bougie, Algiers.

Review by Mary E. Preece

"Le Cafe de Cadix" was reviewed by Linda Pannett author of "Silent Killers." Pierrette Lili Camps author of "Le Cafe de Cadix" is a beautiful brilliant author who will go far in this amazing writing world.Ms. Camps takes the reader on a journey to her home of Algiers, the love of two parents who knew struggles yet knew none. Instilling love and hard work in to their children is what made Ms. Camps the person and author she is today. The proud writing she has done about her life and parents proves anyone can overcome hardships. Le Cafe de Cadix is a must read for everyone. I highly recommend this book for all to see what a little love will do.

Le Café de Cadix By Pierrette Lili Camps is a delightful book to read and own. This autobiographical book will hold your interest from the first page to it's finish. Written extremely well, filled with humor and warmth you begin to feel that Pierrette is indeed your personal friend. If not, then you wish she were. A woman so filled with humor, good nature and story telling you have a fear the book may end too soon. Many vignettes of the many friends and people who visit Le Café de Cadix. Her voice, in her writing is so clear and distinctive that you almost hear her telling you the story.

The last few chapters brought me to such sadness; I could not stop my tears as she relates details of the end of the Algiers known to her and her family. I admit I was rather ignorant of most of this history.

This book will delight you as well as teach you and give you much thought. Definitely one to buy, read and to own.

These books are awesome.They have adventure and humor. That's just what I like in a book. They have really influnenced my Christian life. Everyone should read this series!

I think that this book is funny yet gives a valuble lesson on wisdom. This is about Wally "The Walking-Disaster-Area" who learns about wisdom as he goes into a competetion with the camp bully to see who can out-love one another.

This is a GREAT book. I LOVE the Incredible worlds of Wally McDoogle!! I have read every single one, the first one I ever read was My Life as Dinosaur Dental Floss. My favorit is My Life as a Prickly Porcipine from Pluto. The book I am reveiwing is GREAT and RRREEEEAAAAALLLLYYYYY funny. I love Wally McDoogle.

If you like Wally McDoogle you should read Bloodhounds Inc. it's by the same auther. I also like secret Agent Dingledorf. I'm dissapointed because I can't rate this a million stars.

This book is definetly funny. I especially liked it when Gary and Wally were in a compition of love.It was very humorus and tells about wisdom and kindness. I recomend it for ANY kid!!!!!

I've been a long time fan of Bill Myers ever since I was about 7. I got this then and I was laughing my butt off! It would make a nice gift for younger kids...or even teenagers. I mean, I'm 14 and still enjoy reading books of this series!

I was intrigued by one of the author's earlier book's title, Start with NO...The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don't Want You to Know Start with NO...The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don't Want You to Know, and thought since this was a newer book maybe he had refined his No Negotiating skills and given us some new insights in this newer book.

Since I haen't yet read his earlier work I don't know how this one compares to it, but I can say this is a fine alternative to the win-win style of negotiating that is so often taught and praised.

His experience of trying to negotiate with foreigners while an airline pilot made him wonder why they would turn down his offer of trying to get a good deal with the promise of future sales benefits to come.

After being rebuffed in his negotiations he later on looked up negotiate in the dictionary and it dawned on him that what he had been thinking did not apply to other people. The whole concept of thinking that if you gave some to get a deal or that others would be resonable and give something for future profits didn't apply after all in parts of the real world.

But there is a lot more talked about in the book.
** Neediness is one of the issues that he discusses and how you don't really need what you might think you do, and also how others can spot your neediness thinking and demand more from you to save a deal you think you reall need. ** Sometimes it is to your best interest just to say no.

But besides business deals common everyday things like talking to teachers about your kids or other everyday situations are also discussed in the book. That is why I say it is about so much more than just a style of negotiating, it is about life in general also.

After ordering but even before the book arrived I used the idea of just saying no twice and it worked. Just thinking about the bold title of this and his previous Start with No.. book changed my whole outlook on possible offers.
I have used the win-win model of bargaining many times in my life, but this whole way of thinking from reading the book has put another tool into my arsenal of negotiating tactics.

Sometimes contrarian attitudes can be useful. You don't have to use this mindset all the time but being able to look at things in a different light can make you much stronger in getting what you ultimately want out of life.

I bought this book for an MBA course in negotiations. It has proven to be one of the more valuable books I've read on the subject, with several principles I've applied directly to both my coursework and outside negotiations. The central theme (that NO is a beginning, not an ending) is unique in this kind of writing, and though I'm not sure about that idea, the peripheral themes are immensely helpful. A very nice counterpoint to some of the classic texts on the subject (Getting to Yes, etc.).

After meeting Jim Camp 19 years ago his System has had an incredible impact on my career. As the Director of Business Development for a National Sales organization it is required reading for all on my team. I recommend this book and Jim's "No System" as the only system to success a negotiator will ever need!!!

Sorry, I couldn't resist. Seriously now, this book opens in Chapter 1 with a phenomenal concept that I've never seen fleshed out so well in a negotiations book. That concept is "neediness". More importantly, understanding that neediness is a state of longing for or desiring something that you don't actually need in most cases and then rooting this out of your thinking in relation to the negotiation process. When you don't feel needy, it's easier to say no.

Also, the book points out how the other party's neediness can be played to your advantage. Watch for signs of this like not wanting to end the discussion, giving more information than is needed when answering questions, being overly enthusiastic, etc.

From here the book moves on to typical concepts covered in negotiation books and differs little from the rest of the pool. However, the first chapter and a few nuggets throughout the book make it well work the reading if you are involved in negotiations of any kind.

I just ordered "No: The Only Negotiating System You Need for Work and Home" after seeing ads and reviews and Camp's StartWithNo.com web site.

The web site offered a "10 Tips" download which I promptly downloaded because I like to study contrarian approaches. All ten were useful, but it's the first one that validated why I know I'm going to love reading "No: The Only Negotiating System You Need for Work and Home"

-- Never begin by asking them to say yes and agree. --

Wow. I've been struggling for years with advice from other gurus suggesting that I change my style this from this. It just is so natural to me. Next time I negotiate, I'm going to be a lot more at ease knowing I've got Jim Camp's advice on my side.

If you're tired of doing the reasonable thing (Another excellent book.. "Be Unreasonable" by Paul Lemberg), look for unconventional thinkers like Jim Camp, Tim Ferris(4 Hour Work Week), Ben Mack(Think Two Products Ahead).

There are still some new tricks us for us old dogs to learn.

This is a very well written book, I'm enlisting in the Marines soon and I was so excited to read this book and get an idea what it'll be like. I read this book in less than a day I couldn't put it down! I highly recommend it

The book is well-written--so much so, I actually felt the author's pain, and experienced her joy each time she made it through another trial. I am looking forward to reading her upcoming book.

I am truly grateful for this book and to the author Lisa Cordeiro for giving us some insight into our little nieces head when she made the surprise decision to become a Marine. After saying good bye to her on the day she left us we were all left behind scratching our heads. As someone who likes to do research I came across this book and it answered so many questions and was sort of a diary to what our niece went through day by day. It was an amazing experience for myself and the rest of the family who also read this book. Thank you Lisa!!

I decided to join the Marine Corps through Officer Candidate School at Quantico. After I was selected, I wanted to research as much as I could so that I wouldn't be in complete shock when I arrived. Unfortunately, it was nearly impossible to find any information concerning USMC training of females. Luckily, I stumbled upon "Parris Island: A Woman's Memoir of Marine Corps Boot Camp." Although it deals solely with Recruit training, rather than Candidate training, it was very helpful and informative. There are some parts that made me laugh out loud, while other parts I am so grateful to have read before stepping off the bus onto Quantico property.

This is a must-read for every female considering the Corps. It is extremely informative and easy to read. I truly was thankful that I read this book before entering my 13 weeks.

I read Parris Island while my son was in boot camp at PI. Although it was about a woman who went through the experience, I found the book very interesting and informative. It gave me a good insight into what my son was going through at Parris Island. Lisa grew up in the town I live in so it was good to see boot camp through the eyes of a hometown girl. I would highly recommend this book.

I've read SV books since 4th grade, and this one has always been my favorite. When Elizabeth writes the story, it's so exciting, because even SHE doesn't know what's going to happen next. It's so spooky and thrilling. It made me want to go out and write a spooky mystery of my own. I'd definitly recommend it, even to non Sweet Valley fans.

This is such a good and thrilling mystery that I know a boy who loved it.It is an intriguing story in which writer Elizabeth finds a pen that writes by itself..kind of..it still has to be in her hand.And as it writes secrets are revealed to Elizabeth by the soul of a ghost who wants an injustice in her life fixed up.

I thought this book was very scary.It was creepy the way thepen tells the story of a girl who is a novelist and her boyfriend letsher do all the writing and then sells those novels by his own name and the thigs in the story start happening to Elizabeth's twin sister ,Jessica.This book is totally awesome.I rate it 10

this book was the BOMB!!!!it was the most scary when jessica was held by the neck in the cave.this book is the best!if you like scary stories read it!

Okay. My mom thinks SVT is trash. So does everyone else. But they really turned around after reading this book! I don't care what you say, Miss/Mr. Unrealistic. This book is duh BOMB!

This book is a must-read. These guys literally went through hell. You must get this book, it is outsading. If you feel terrible about how your life is, read this book. You'll realize how good you have it.

Well written book. Hard to put down.

This is one of those books that just makes you churn inside. The abuses and suffering are never ending during the length of the book. The detail provided could only have come from someone that was there. Mr. Lawton explains in vivid detail the degree of torment these guys endured. YOU NEED TO READ THIS!

I am reviewing the 1984 hardback edition of this book which was entitled "Some Survived. An Epic Account of Japanese Captivity During WWII."
Although this is not the first book on The Death March I have read, it is probably the best. It is well written and easy to read. The thing I liked best was the fact that not only did it give, in great detail, an eye witness account of the atrocities committed by the Japanese on American POW's in the Phillipines, it went on to describe life in the camps after the march, then on to a very detailed description of their treatment on the 'Hell Ships' that took the prisoners to prison camps in Japan.
This is not a book of despair only. It is also of faith, guts, determination, and final victory by Manny Lawton and a few others that survived this horrible period of time. It also prompts us to remember those that didn't. God Bless them.

On April 8, 1942, Manny Lawton was a 23 year old army captain stationed on Bataan when orders came down to surrender to the Japanese who had invaded and captured the Philippine Islands in the opening months of World War II in the Pacific Theatre. Lawton and his fellow U.S. troops and their Filipino allies were compelled to endure a six-day, sixty-mile trek forever after known as the Bataan Death March, during which approximately eleven thousand men died of exhaustion or were murdered by the Japanese by bayoneting, clubbing, or simply shooting their prisoners outright. By the time the war ended in August 1945, about 57 percent of the American troops who surrendered to the Japanese on Bataan had died in confinement at the hands of the enemy. Some Survived: An Eyewitness Account Of The Bataan Death March And The Men Who Lived Through It is an important historical documentation and seminal contribution to World War II Pacific Theatre reference collections.

This is an amazing report of an American soldier held captive by the Japaese in the Phippines and the island of Japan itself for three and one-half years after his capture in World War II.
How he could remember the details of brutal beatings, starvation and resulting illnesses is almost beyond belief. His experiences with fellow prisoners runs the gamut from the highest heroism to utter selfishness. Every day he looked forward to freedom, only to be repeatedly disappointed until that memorable day when he met the invading U.S. forces and he knew that he was free ,atlast! The dscription of his home coming is heart wrenching as it was for all of us on our return. This book's contents are enough to make almost anyone swear to never buy another Japanese produced article.

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This is a short summary of the killing factory of Auschwitz. The author is a German Professor of History and she details how the killing factory came about. I.G. Farben wanted to locate a huge industrial site in this requistitioned site of former Poland. When they killed off the Soviet Prisoner of War population, they decided this may be a good resettlement site for Jewish population of Europe. In actuality, it was not a resettlement camp but a death camp where the workers either had a slow or quick death. Those who survived the initial train selection process were worked to death on starvation food rations.

Steinbacher details the history of Auschwitz well. This is a tough subject and I think she does well overall. The writing was surprisely good, with many technical subjects covered in layman's terms.

Professor Steinbacher tells the truth and only the truth. There are no embellishments or sensationalisms in her book. This book "cuts to the chase." Again, there are "no" over-the-top sensationalisms(like Rees' book, with too many wondering/airy/undocumented side stories - give me the facts!) This book gives you the facts! Every class and school should have this book. You will learn a whole lot in this book, which is not very long, because it gets to the point and dosen't have the 'personal opinion, un-substanciated endless babble' that other books on this important topic have that cost 4 times as much as Steinbacher's. Steinbacher's book is a "find;" or a "needle in the haystack." It teaches Auschwitz, without the "reckless and 'overly' graphic" details, but brilliantly gets the message across/gets the job done. Highly, highly recommended for "all" teachers and students. A lot of well researched info for a mere $9ish dollars. Again, there's a lot of learning in this concise book. Truly, the most objective and well-written book on Auschwitz. One tip on reading Steinbacher's book; Before reading the whole book, read page "29," and learn something about Auschwitz you've never heard... WOW!!! Solid book.

The name Auschwitz is so loaded with associations of almost universal evil that it barely occurs to people that there is a reality to be known. Using the name as a shortcut for the Holocaust, for genocide, mass murder, poison gas, crematoria, Nazi SS terror troops, and more actually cheats us. This rather small book takes on the big task of telling in a very straightforward way how Auschwitz came to be, what happened there during the Second World War, and its aftermath.

Auschwitz is the name the Germans applied to a Polish town as they moved to the East to provide "Living Space" and a buffer against the Soviets. At first they moved the Poles out of the town to other prison camps and then brought them back and killed thousands. IG Farben decided it could use the slave labor such camps could provide and so a huge factory was built. But the camp was too far away for malnourished prisoners to travel each day. They had hoped these prisoners would be at least half as effective as a healthy German. The prisoners, starved, beaten, and traumatized, were only about 20% as effective. So, a camp was built next to the plant.

Soviet Prisoners of War by the thousands were also brought to an Auschwitz camp to be slaves, they ended up being useless for that purpose. More than 10,000 of them were killed as well. When the war effort began going badly the camps moved into extermination and a huge third camp was begun with enough capacity to burn more than 4,500 bodies per day. They were never all in service at the same time, but what did exist was so overburdened with use that they became damaged and required repair. Bodies were burned in open trenches during the repairs.

The author teaches us that the 4 million killed in Auschwitz was based by the Soviets on theoretical crematoria capacity. Scholars studying the subject now believe that between 1.1 and 1.5 million were killed there in various ways. There was the Zyklon B and cremation, but there was also shooting, starvation, disease, beating, medical experimentation, and even doctors injecting phenol directly into prisoners' hearts. We are shown how this easily fits in with the number of 6 million Jews killed during the war. In the beginning only about half of those killed were Jews, by the frantic last days it was almost all Jews.

The book also takes us through the trials related to Auschwitz (not all the war crimes trials) and what was uncovered and how punishment was meted out and strangely avoided by some for decades and some escaped entirely. Finally, the author gives us a tour of the revisionists who try to deny the truth about the mass murders at the three Auschwitz camps.

Her writing is clear and straightforward. She tells us these monstrous things without adding emotion into her writing. We don't need any help in feeling the horror and revulsion. We know she feels it, too. The book never gets gruesome or clinical and provides an amazing number of facts in its 168 pages. There are maps of the area and diagrams of the three camps and a picture taken by prisoners in the camp of bodies being burned on the ground.

This is quite an amazing little book and can help its readers understand the realities behind the word that we all use as a brand name for unspeakable evil.

There are many larger and more detailed (and perhaps, more emotional and horrifying) books about Auschwitz, but as a short, factual and accurate rendering of that gigantic horror story, this book is excellent. Sybille Steinbacher covers a surprising amount of detail in a very short space. These days, when current political events have created entire nations of holocaust deniers, this should be a required text.

In this short book, Sybille Steinbacher, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Modern and Contemporary History at Ruhr University, gives a compelling account of Auschwitz. Professor Steinbacher, and her able translator, Shaun Whiteside, writes in a concise, stark, understated, and eloquent way. She avoids the tendency to sensationalize and overdramatize and allows her material to speak for itself. The stylistic, nonsensationalistic excellence of this book adds greatly to its impact.

In brief, measured chapters, Professor Steinbacher discusses the long history of the Polish town of Oswiecim, and its history of Jewish habitation, before it became notorious as Auschwitz. She explains how Auschwitz lay in the path of Germany's eastern expansion and how it inexorably became a killing camp. It moved from a camp for political prisoners and a labor camp to, beginning in mid-1942, a death camp for Jews. She discusses how this change came about as a result of high policy within the Nazi regime and how it was implemented in the camp with mass gasing, shootings, beatings, starvations, and medical torture. She describes the role of the German corporation IB Farben in organizing the camps, using the labor of the prisoners, and providing the cyanide gas, Zyclon B, for the killings. Following her discussion of the founding of the camp, and its development into a site for mass murder, Professor Steinbacher discusses how the Nazi's abandoned the camp, took the remaining prisoners on lengthy death marches, and attempted to destroy the evidence of their brutality as the Soviet Army moved closer and ultimately occupied the camp. She describes the attempt, following the end of the War, to bring some of the perpetuators of Auschwitz to justice, with mixed results. Finally, a short chapter considers those who have denied the Holocaust and the crimes perpetuated at Auschwitz. Professor Steinbacher discusses the extent to which people in the town of Auschwitz, in Germany, and in the outside world were aware of the events in the camp. She also discusses, briefly, the decision of the Allies not to bomb the camp when they learned of the ongoing atrocities. The book includes detailed maps of the complexes at Auschwitz and a good bibliography.

With its tone of restraint, careful factual presentation, and considered judgment, Professor Steinbacher's book was highly valuable in helping me think about Auschwitz.

Robin Friedman

This book was fantastic. I received it when I gave birth to my third child, and found applications that were useful for all of my children. The chapters are short and easy to pick up and put down whenever you have a spare minute.

This book is very uplifting and encouraging for such a significant life change.

As a brand new mother, I received such encouragement from this book. I realized just how precious a privilege it is to be entrusted by God to raise one of His special gifts. I felt overwhelmed and underqualified as I realized how much my daughter will look to me. Even in the "hard" times of sleepless nights and fussy days, this book helped me see the joy and amazement in every moment. My only complaint of the book is that it ended too soon!

This is the best devotional I could have asked for as a new mother. I love her stories (from her experiences), ideas, and most of all, Godly advice and encouragement for new mothers. I can not say enough good stuff about this book. I am keeping it to give to my son's wife when they have a baby (he's 4 mos. old!)...it's that good! And I ordered some for all my pregnant friends.

I was given this book by a friend and what a blessing it was to me! I plan on giving it to all my friends as they are expecting their first baby. This book really helped bring perspective back to me during those first hormonal and life changing weeks.