A Story of Hope: A Holocaust Story

Alexander Rucki is the child of a Jewish Holocaust survivor and his book is both a reminder of mans breathtaking inhumanity to man and the absolute miracle of survival. These long-term effects are seen in hindsight over sixty years later. One can only begin to imagine what it wouldve been like to be sixteen and the sole survivor of a Nazi death camp. Its been done before-Diary of Anne Frank and Schindlers List among the two most popular-but this tragedy is constantly revisited and I suspect this story is now ripe for the retelling. Alexanders mother not only survived Auschwitz-her brother sister; and parents did not-but she married bore two sons and moved to a new continent with a new language far away from the hell of Europe.