And The Month Was May

A personal epic of scope and sincerity And The Month Was May traces the life of Lillian Berliner from her childhood in Hungary to the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen to her eventual liberation and resettlement in New York.<p> Rendering with equal candor the searing cruelty of the camps and the flourishing of life thereafter Berliner has produced a memoir that embraces hope even as it looks unflinchingly at horror. Central to the telling is Berliner's voice springing from the page to evoke the characters settings and inner motivations of her life in stunning detail.<p> It is a story that affirms the resilience and infinite potential of the human spirit.