Breaking My Silence

Memoirs of a Jew born in Łódź, who had just finished grade school at the time of the Nazi occupation of Poland. Describes life in the ghetto, emphasizing the continued observance of Jewish religious practices even in the face of adversity. In 1944 Eilenberg was deported to Auschwitz. She was saved from the line to the crematorium at the last moment and sent to work in a forced labor camp, where she was eventually liberated.