Ettie Zilber

As the second world war recedes further into history and so many of the people involved in it are at advanced ages or dead, the question needs to be asked if it is important that we remember what happened 70 years ago. In this new book, Ettie Zibler answers that question with a resounding YES.

This narrative is divided into two sections. In the first section, we get the story of Zlata Santocki Sidrer who was a teenager when the war broke out. She lived in Lithuania with her parents and sisters and their lives changed drastically when the war broke out. The family ended up in different concentration camps and she lost most of her family. She describes not only her time in the camps but also the time after the liberation when people were looking for family. It is amazing that they were able to find loved ones since things were so confusing at that time. The second part of the book is told by Ettie Zilber, one of the daughters of Zlata who went to Europe and visited the places that her mother had lived both before and after the war and visited the concentration camps. She is not only able to tell the story of her family's survival but is also able to look at it from the present day.

This is an important record of the horrors of war and these books need to be read so that the same mistakes aren't made again.… (altro)