My Book

I am choosing to read All But My Life. This book was written by Gerda Weissmann Klein. Unfortunately she was in Poland during WWII, and I am assuming she was a Jew because she was put in a concentration camp. She married one of the men, a soldier, that liberated her camp, and they presently live in Arizona. I chose this book because I have an interest in military history, and in WWII. I figure that this will give me more insight into what the people placed into German concentration camps went through. Although I have read several books about Holocaust survivors I learn a little something new with each book. Each survivor has a story, and generally they are heart wrenching because they tell of how their families were killed before their eyes. It also tells how they were tortured and nearly starved to death. I also chose this book because it seemed to be one of the few that I would be interested in out of the ones available to read. I also hope to be able to expand my vocabulary and intelligence by reading this book. It seems that with each new book I learn a new word or phase that I sometimes “pull out” when I think it is appropriate.