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You Saved Me, Too: What A Holocaust Survivor Taught Me About Living, Dying, Fighting, Loving, And Swearing In Yiddish (2012)

by Susan Kushner Resnick(Favorite Author)

4.19 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

076278038X (ISBN13: 9780762780389)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

skirt!

review 1: One of the occupational hazards of being a librarian is that the whole time you're reading a book, you're thinking about who you're going to recommend it to. You Saved Me, Too was a tough one to place. I loved it and I want to give it to just the right people who will appreciated it. Is it for avid Holocaust readers? Is it for Jews? Christians? People who like memoirs? People who have an elderly person in their lives? People who collect swears in foreign languages? Yes. All of those. It's a book about friendship, and I hope we ALL have some experience with that. I guess this wasn't such a tough one to place after all!
review 2: I finished this book a couple of days ago and have been missing Zoo and Aron ever since. The whole time I was reading, I felt like I co... moreuld hear the two of them talking to each other. Their matching cynicism and humor jumped off the page and Resnick's choice to tell the tale as if she were still talking to her soulmate Aron made me feel as if I'd been part of their relationship from day one to the end. This is the story of the kind of friendship we all long for, one where all our warts and wrinkles are accepted along with our everyday courage and heroism. ,,lm Resnick's research into Aron's life before and during the war added to the depth of the story, revealing not just his history, but her own innate journalistic sense. I loved the way she wove that history throughout the book, giving her readers Aron's past little by little so we could understand both the anxiety that plagued him and the generosity and humor that sustained him. Resnick also bravely gives us an unvarnished view of her own straightforward, sometimes demanding, nature. She's not afraid to fight hard and to love deeply. Helping Aron was her way out of postpartum depression and her fight to give him the dignified death he deserved made her own life richer. Great book! Don't let Holocaust angst scare you away; this book is a true love story. less

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