Holocaust's Daughter By Ann Kirschner Summary

In a week and a half, I read a book written by a survivor of the Holocaust’s daughter. Ann Kirschner’s mother, Sala, was in seven different Nazi work camps within a time period of five years. Sala went fifty years without telling anyone in her family her stories or experiences. She finally told her daughter, Ann, of her experiences the night before she went through heart surgery. Ann was shocked at the 350 plus letters, photographs, and diary her mother had kept the entire time she was a slave. Sala was born in Poland, but she told Ann this story from a hospital in New York in 1991. This book tells a lot about treatment in the Nazi camps towards captives, and tells of the letters that Sala was secretly sending to and from her friends in and outside of other camps. Sala Kirschner, born Sala Garncarz, grew up with ten brothers

Many women’s jobs were cooking and cleaning for the hundreds of laborers and German staff. Men worked every day at the construction sites of Hitler’s autobahn. He wanted to have a scapegoat to blame if it was not a success, so having the Jewish people build it was the perfect idea. Ala also worked as a typist and translator. Although labor camps were not killing camps, they were still very harsh conditions with little food and awful treatment. Each laborer was given a monthly Eskarte, which means meal ticket, which only provided them with one meal a day. The Holocaust was a terrible event, and survivors went through the most traumatic events anyone could go through. Although this book is sad and tells of the hardships, it has a lot of hope and it shows the good in most peoples’ hearts. I would recommend this book for people to read because it is a unique story and shows the connection between the outside world and the labor camps. Ann Kirschner has an unbelievably brave mother, and I am thrilled that she decided to share her story with the