Mamaleh

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Mamaleh: A Legacy of Loss and Love</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Elaine Culbertson has created a new kind of Holocaust survivor story. It is a memoir that combines both her mother Dora Freilich's personal recollections of her life as a survivor as well as her own reflections on growing up in a family that had experienced the trauma of the Holocaust. Dora's survival of two full years in Auschwitz was indeed a miracle but her beautifully expressed memories of that time as well as the life that she and her husband built in America are miracles as well. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In this sometimes startling sometimes funny but always poignant memoir the reader will be immersed in a family that experienced the challenges of survival immigration and assimilation as told in the words of a mother and daughter who came from two different worlds but who forged a relationship based on love and respect.</span></p><p></p>