FROM ASHES TO LIFE
Jewish Studies/Memoirs
5½ x 8½, 232 pp with
8 pp b&w photographs
Paper, $17.95
1-56279-052-8
US & Canada

A 1994 SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
“Best Adult Book for Young Adults”

In this disturbing but inspirational account, Lucille Eichengreen relates her personal journey through Nazi Germany as a young Jewish girl.

Sustained by great courage and resourcefulness, Lucille Eichengreen emerged from her nightmare with the inner strength to build a new life for herself in the United States. Only in 1991 did she return to Germany and Poland to assess the Jewish situation there. Her story is a testament to the very thing the Holocaust sought to destroy: the regeneration of Jewish life.

Blessed with a remarkable memory that made her one of the most effective witnesses in the postwar trial of her persecutors, Eichengreen has composed a memoir of exceptional accuracy. As important as its factual accuracy is its emotional clarity and truth. Simple and direct, Eichengreen's words compel with moral authority.

“Formidable in its authority: one knows instantly that nothing here is 'made up,' everything has been seen, smelled, endured, suffered ... I am harrowed by it ... the truth-telling, the economy, the spare moral cry of it.”
— Cynthia Ozick

“In spare, lucid language, Eichengreen relates her harrowing forced journey ... through the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Neuengamme, and Bergen-Belsen. Important, compelling testimony.”
— Ms.

“A most eloquent Holocaust memoir, distinguished by symmetry of storyline and theme.”
— Kirkus Reviews