SuitabookSurvival and hope
Riva vows to live and hope after separation, deportation and imprisonment, while encountering unexpected small acts of kindness.
Loading your next page
Book details
Ruth Minsky Sender - Author
This is a personal Holocaust memoir centred on Riva’s separation from her family, imprisonment and determination to survive. It presents endurance alongside persecution, bereavement and occasional kindness.
As long as there is life, there is hope After Mama is taken away by the Nazis, Riva and her younger brothers cling to their mothere's brave words to help them endure life in the Lodz ghetto. Then the family is rounded up, deported to Auschwitz, and separated. Now Riva is alone. At Auschwitz, and later in the work camps at Mittlesteine and Grafenort, Riva vows to live, and to hope - for Mama, for her brothers, for the millions of other victims of the nightmare of the Holocaust. And through determination and courage, and unexpected small acts of kindness, she does live - to write the unforgettable memoir that is a testament to the strength of the human spirit
Book Brief
Sign in to see how this book fits your child and family preferences.
Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a personal Holocaust memoir centred on Riva’s separation from her family, imprisonment and determination to survive. It presents endurance alongside persecution, bereavement and occasional kindness.
Riva vows to live and hope after separation, deportation and imprisonment, while encountering unexpected small acts of kindness.
Riva loses contact with her mother and brothers after Nazi persecution and later lives to write a memoir remembering them and other victims.
Consider discussing the historical reality behind the events and the difference between recognising Riva’s resilience and treating suffering as something that simply produces strength.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the current material supports only a cautious reading; another book-specific source is still needed.
Book information
Limited information
Anything not established here remains open; it is not being treated as absent or safe.