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Hope Is the Last to Die: A Coming of Age Under Nazi Terror by Halina Birenbaum

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emotional informative sad fast-paced

4.5

An immersive and personal recount of the author's experiences as a Polish Jew in WW2 - from surviving the Warsaw Ghetto to years in concentration camps. 

I got this book at the bookshop at the Auschwitz museum after asking for recommendations. I am glad I finally got around to reading it. 

I kinda wished it had chapter breaks to make it easier to read, but as a retelling it was still cohesive. I found it to be heartbreaking but also objective, which can be difficult when writing about such personal experiences. 
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