Reviews for And yet I still have dreams

The average rating for And yet I still have dreams based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-01-16 00:00:00 Bjarne Christensen A Polished Piece with the Rough Truth of the Warsaw Ghetto Holocaust diaries fall into two categories: those penned and hidden, only to survive the author, and those written by eyewitnesses lucky to have survived their ordeal. Diaries of the latter category tend to be more polished, with the benefit of careful editing. Michael Zylberberg, in the interest of making his diary flow more easily, abandoned the dates of the individual entries and arranged his material by theme in chapters. As is often the case, however, the original diary remained hidden, only by miracle to see the light of day again some 20 years later. The reader of Michael Zylberberg's diary cannot help but be amazed at the author's tenacity, resourcefulness, and desire to cling to life despite the odds. His was an act of defiant resistance, to survive the Final Solution and tell about it, bearing witness to the many lives of persons who did not survive. Best of all, Michael Zylberberg's diary recounts the entire history of Warsaw under German Nazi occupation, from the early days after the 1939 invasion to the imprisonment of Jewish inhabitants in the horrific Ghetto, the 1942 mass liquidations, the 1943 Ghetto Uprising and 1944 Warsaw Uprising (by the Polish underground Home Army), through eventual liberation. Michael Zylberberg was a close friend of Janusz Korczak; his diary offers a great deal of invaluable personal insight not available elsewhere to that most remarkable of men. It was Korczak who acquired an aura of immortality when he expressed his devotion to the sanctity of life - and protest against the Nazi death campaigns aimed specifically at children - by offering the orphans in his care comfort and hope in their last moments. This is ultimately a book of survival.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-10-11 00:00:00 Troy Adams This was a fantastic read.....a devastating true story of a Jewish child's survival in a wartime Polish ghetto. It is a thought-provoking read and the author's style of writing is wonderful....just like a child's narration....