If I Survive

If I Survive: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 100-Year-Old Lena Goldstein’s Miracle Story (2019) by Barbara Miller

“If I Survive.” This thought haunted Lena. Her loved ones were cruelly forced from her arms in the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland and perished in Treblinka Death Camp. Would she be next? A young Jewish woman who wanted to be a lawyer. A Nazi regime determined to exterminate all European Jews. Forced to wash German uniforms or starve, Lena’s turn to face death came.

Review by Konrad Kwiet, Emeritus Professor and Resident Historian Sydney Jewish Museum

This is a compelling, indeed exemplary work, that merges the history of the Holocaust with the live story of one survivor: Lena Goldstein, aged 100, one of the last living witnesses to the horrors of the Holocaust.