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Not Just a Survivor : Portrait of My Mother - Rochy Miller

Not Just a Survivor

Portrait of My Mother

By: Rochy Miller

Paperback | 16 June 2020

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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.
Industry Reviews

I have just turned the last page of 'your mom's memoirs'. I am in total awe of a woman I never knew & feel so grateful to be given insight into & to share in her life. It is, by far, the most compelling account of an horrendous period in time & a poignant dedication of a daughter to her mother, that I have ever read.

Denise Shulman, Brisbane, Australia

I started reading your Mum's biography and I just could not stop. Thanks to your powerful writing, I feel that I know her, her family, what she went through at that horrific time and what motivated her to ensure that her experiences would be shared to make certain that the Holocaust would never be forgotten. Placing your mother's words so strategically throughout added so much veracity and authenticity to the story.

Philip Zavelsky, former owner American Book Store, Brisbane, Australia

This is a beautiful tribute to a strong, formidable woman who survived against all odds.

Mandy Herbert, Freelance Editor, Melbourne, Australia

And now that I have started reading, I cannot put it down... you have created the space for her to live and breathe in your words.

Gill Fine, Australia

I actually found myself thinking about this book for weeks after I finished reading it. The many voices in the book were a perfect vehicle to express how important Bobba was to her family, and how her experiences during the Holocaust informed and influenced not only all aspects of her life, but the lives of her family members as well. I have read many books about the Holocaust and those who survived it and I really feel that this is a unique work. To have Bobba's actual words from her recordings, added a deep and personal dimension to the book.

Pam Weisbrod, Florida, USA

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