Books by Caroline Stoessinger
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review 1: I feel like I read a different book than the rest of my book club. I didn't find this a quick and uplifting read. I did find it positive, enriching, painful, and beneficial, however. Humor: for a bit it felt like reading Forest Gump; Herz-Sommer knew so many famous people and was...
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review 1: Alice Herz-Sommer is a truly inspirational woman, who did not allow the atrocities and losses she experienced in the Nazi concentration camps to affect the rest of her life. She lived life to the fullest and was grateful for every single thing, whether big or small, she was given...
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review 1: I bought this book because I enjoyed a TV documentary. My advice would be to stick to the documentary. Probably sacrilege to say it, but I found the book surprisingly irritating. Firstly, there's not much of Alice Herz-Sommer's wisdom: just sprinklings through the book and then a...