Results: "Do Not Cry When I Die" by Renee Salt and Kate Thompson

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"…we all have a right to live. Be tolerant to one another, perhaps the world will be a better place to live in." Renee Salt when asked what her message is to younger generations.
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Do Not Cry When I Die is a Holocaust Memoir of a Mother and Daughter's Survival In Jewish Ghettos, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen. When German soldiers invaded Poland in September 1939, it began a six year journey for then-ten-year-old Renee Salt and her mother Sala. They were imprisoned in ghettos and concentration camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen. The only light in the darkness and brutality for Renee was the unwavering grasp of her mother's hand in hers–enduring, against all odds. After suffering the nightmarish conditions at Bergen-Belsen, Renee and her mother were liberated in April 1945 but Sala died soon after they were saved. To this day, Renee attributes her survival to the love and bravery of her beloved mother. Do Not Cry When I Die is an incredibly moving and deeply crucial book that tells the shocking story of one of the oldest Holocaust survivors and the mother's love that saved her life. Are you interested in reading this moving memoir of love, loss, courage, and hope of a mother and daughter during the darkest times of their lives?
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