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I was sent to Auschwitz late in 1944, when the war in Europe was already five years old. For us, the Jewish people in Poland, those were long, terror-filled years when I learned the paralyzing effect of fear—when my healthy young appetite was replaced by hunger that kept me awake at night, gnawing inside like a worm, and when the only defense against humiliation was our contempt for the tormenters.

I was already then a veteran of two ghettos and had lost trace of my father and two sisters who were sent away and never heard from again. I thought I had seen and lived through the worst. Then I came to Auschwitz. I remember every day and everything that occurred, but some things—fragments and pictures—stand out more sharply in focus.
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One of them is this unbelievable picture of my first day in Auschwitz. There I was, dressed in pitiful rags thrown to me at random after my clothes had been taken away, barefoot, with no undergarments. My freshly shaven head was naked and shamefully exposed. I was sobbing in despair.

I was separated from my mother when we came off the train. I did not know then what was happening to her—that she was being led to the gas chambers to die. I longed to be with her…
The gripping stories in Only Hope: A Survivor’s Stories of the Holocaust, told from the tender, first person perspective of Felicia Lubliner, will transfix the reader from start to finish. Middle and high school students, as well as adults of all ages, will absorb the impact of the Holocaust in new and unforgettable ways through these remarkable, personal accounts. The legacy of this heroic woman will indeed live on, not only in her words, but in the hearts that are changed by the hope they inspire. 
—Kathleen A. Cepelka, Ph.D., Superintendent of Catholic Schools,
Archdiocese of Milwaukee
In just a few pages these stories vivify the horror of the Holocaust and the redemption of the human will. Felicia Lubliner makes us realize in Only Hope that the spark of life cannot be extinguished even in the darkest of times.
—Dennis M. Read, Professor Emeritus of English,
Denison University
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