LOS ANGELES, April 9, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The atrocities of the Nazis can never be remembered as vividly as the survivors can of that terrible episode in history. Ironically, the Holocaust has produced resilient, strong and optimistic people. In The Girl From Sighet: A Memoir, Hindi Rothbart shares of such resilience, strength and optimism she showed amid the ghastliness of Auschwitz.
Through a seamless employment of flashbacks, Rothbart navigates through the novel-like narrative to gradually unfold the intimate details of that dark period. She pegs the beginning of the end at 1944, when she and her family were taken apart and sent to the different camps that the Nazis had set up across Europe. She reveals of her horrifying experiences and the inhumane conditions at the camps, sometimes subtly, at other times outright.
When the Russians came to free them, Rothbart would relate a different kind of terror that made their liberators the new enemy. At times, when the storyline reached a suspenseful or nearly unbearable point, she switches to another flashback and makes the reader stew in aborted anticipation until she is ready to get back on that story again. Eventually, her journey takes her to America. At this point, she experiences something she had never tasted before, unparalleled liberty in "the land of the free."
Spanning an epic seventy years, The Girl from Sighet is a naturally flowing chronicle that transfixes the reader with a constant gentle entreaty for companionship throughout Rothbart's remarkable journey from the darkness of despair and pain to the light of healing and hope. For more information, log on to www.Xlibris.com.
About the Author
Helen (Hindi) Rothbart was born in Sighet, Romania, in 1924. She survived the Auschwitz concentration camp, Weisswasser labor camp, and Communism. She speaks five languages and is a proud member of the B'nai B'rith, the United Fund, and United Jewish Appeal. She cherishes her close ties with relatives and friends around the world, including Sighet. She now resides in Brentwood, California, close to her two sons and four grandchildren.
The Girl from Sighet * by Hindi Rothbart with P'nenah Goldstein
A Memoir
Publication Date: February 25, 2009
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