Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Auschwitz Lullaby by Mario Escobar

If you're looking for a "feel good" story this is not the book for you.  However, if you're brave enough to let your heart break pick up this book.  Within these pages you will find the intense love of a mother for her children.  You will see that love really does win over evil even if not in this world it will in God's heavenly kingdom.  Reading this book was hard because of the brutality and deprivation the inmates of Auschwitz endured.  But there is a tender and redeeming quality to this story as you read about actual people who lived through these events and what they chose to do.  In the midst of extreme suffering there were those who chose to sacrifice what little they had for others.  In the face of torture some chose as many acts of kindness as they could bestow.  Bravery and courage does not always come with loud acclamations but rather with tenderness when all around is indifference and evil.  The author entreats and challenges the reader to take this story and tell others so that Helen Hannemann's life was not lived in vain.

I received this book from the publishers but was not required to write a positive review.

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