History has a lot to teach us and it's always good to be reminded of things that happened - especially how and why it happened. This isn't an easy book to read. It is the story of Joe Rubinstein. When Geise wrote this book in 2014 Joe was 92 years old. So that is the spoiler - he survived and lived a long life. Before he was born his parents lost a son to illness. They went on to have more children including Joe and his twin brother. By the end of the war Joe knew that he was the only one left in his family. What the man went through was endured by millions but it is so much worse when we read about an individual. There were several times that he shouldn't have survived, but he did. We learn about the entire life of Joe - his childhood, the war, the post-war and then a brief part that summarizes the second part of his life. All the Holocaust stories are important. We can't ever forget that it happened.
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