NOT JUST A SURVIVOR: a portrait of my mother - Softcover

Miller, Rochy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0994228686 ISBN 13: 9780994228680

Publisher: Rae Leibowitz, 2020

Synopsis

"The camp is getting fuller and fuller. I talk to the Sanitater – an SS guard, who collects the sick from all the other camps and brings them here – and he tells me that when there are over a thousand inmates, they are sent away. And I see that the camp is filling up and filling up and filling up. So I decided – I am not going away with them to Auschwitz. I have to get out of here!"My mother was a Holocaust survivor. She embodied the Holocaust. She experienced it physically, lived it emotionally and studied it intellectually. She spent her entire life trying to make logical sense of an inexplicable trauma that ruled her life and decimated her past. But being a Survivor was never all of who she was. She was so much more – somebody truly special who survived and enriched people’s lives not because of the Holocaust, but despite it. Filled with the many stories of love, loss, hope, friendship, and food, told and retold – some by her, and some about her – this book creates a composite of the warm, intelligent, and amazing person that she was. These are her stories. This memoir provides an insight into the life of a truly exceptional woman. A Holocaust survivor’s tale told across two families and three continents before, during and after World War II. A remarkable meditation on suffering, resilience, and rebirth. An emotive account of what it means to face the worst, emerge with your humanity intact, and go on to live your life to the fullest

About this title

About the Author

Rochy Miller is the daughter of a Holocaust survivor - Lea Leibowitz. This memoire, her mother's story, has been a lifetime in the making. Rochy is a retired medical doctor, who, like her mother, holds a swathe of other qualifications, and dabbles a little in each. She has studied creative writing, and holds both Medical Journalism and Master of Journalism degrees. She has published numerous short stories and articles, as well as a series of Text Books in the field of Aesthetics Education. Originally from South Africa, she now lives in Brisbane, Australia, with her husband - but spends much of her time travelling to Florida, USA, where her two young granddaughters live. When not travelling, she can be found pursuing her other favourite creative pursuits: painting and toy-making, and - like her mother - baking up a storm in her kitchen.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rae Leibowitz
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0994228686
• ISBN 13: 9780994228680
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280