Ruth Minsky Sender

To Life Ruth Minsky Sender

Jacket Description/Back: "WE ARE FREE!"When Russian soldiers liberate Grafenort, the Nazi labor camp where she is a prisoner, nineteen-year-old Riva discovers that liberation doesn't mean the end of her hardship and suffering. Cold and starving, threatened with rape by the same Russian soldiers who were her saviors, Riva makes her way to her old home in Poland, searching like so many others for family who may have survived. Strengthened by her mother's credo, as long as there is life, there is hope, and by the promise of a new love and a new life, Riva endures the long years of waiting for real freedom and a real home. Picking up where her acclaimed memoir The Cage leaves off, Ruth Minsky Sender has written another inspirational document of the power of hope and love over unspeakable cruelty. Review Quotes: "To Life is not just a highly recommended book, it is a necessity". -- School Library Journal, starred reviewPublisher Marketing: "WE ARE FREE!" When Russian soldiers liberate Grafenort, the Nazi labor camp where she is a prisoner, nineteen-year-old Riva discovers that liberation doesn't mean the end of her hardship and suffering. Cold and starving, threatened with rape by the same Russian soldiers who were her saviors, Riva makes her way to her old home in Poland, searching like so many others for family who may have survived. Strengthened by her mother's credo, "as long as there is life, there is hope, " and by the promise of a new love and a new life, Riva endures the long years of waiting for real freedom and a real home. Picking up where her acclaimed memoir "The Cage" leaves off, Ruth Minsky Sender has written another inspirational document of the power of hope and love over unspeakable cruelty. Review Citations:

Publishers Weekly 03/20/2000 pg. 95 (EAN 9780689832826, Mass Market Paperbound)

Wilson Middle/Junior Hi Catalo 01/01/1995 pg. 367 (EAN 9780027818314, Hardcover)

Wilson Middle/Junior Hi Catalo 01/01/2000 pg. 379 (EAN 9780027818314, Hardcover)

Publishers Weekly 09/30/1988 (EAN 9780027818314, Hardcover)

School Library Journal 11/01/1988 (EAN 9780027818314, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Sender, Ruth Minsky Ruth Minsky Sender was a teacher of Jewish culture and history, specializing in the Holocaust. She lives with her husband in Commack, New York. She is the mother of three grown sons and a daughter, and has several grandchildren. "The Cage" was her first book; she is also the author of "To Life, " and "The Holocaust Lady".