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Young Reni, a girl on the precipice of adolescence, takes us through the darkest days of the Holocaust and her budding understanding of the human spirit. What I found was heart, courage, tenderness, and hope. Not since the Diary of Anne Frank, have I been so touched by a book that grapples with the dark abyss of the human condition during the Holocaust. is book is a revelation about what sustains the human spirit, what is far stronger than hate. -Jacqueline Sheehan, NYTimes bestselling authorIn this striking memoir, Irene Butter gives us the sweep of catastrophic historythrough her child eyes. Taking the reader from "black zigzags" to cattle cars, from Berlin to Amsterdam to Westerbork to Bergen-Belsen to Algeria, and nally to the United States, young Reni shares the ordinary and the unimaginable with stunning detail, with generosity, with hope. Irene Butter's beliefs that one should never be an enemy and never be a bystander are important lessons for us to understand the past and to act in the world of today. -Ellen Meeropol, author of Kinship of Clover, named "One of the best books from Indie Publishers in 2017" by PBSIrene Butter paints a gripping picture of a girl's sense of self in the Holocaust. German-Jewish through birth and heritage, stateless through persecution, and Dutch and American through refuge, Butter invites us to walk with her on the vulnerable journey of forging her young identity. In a time of resurging racism and xenophobia, the book forces the reader to consider what happens when adult dehumanization shapes the real life of a real child. The book bears witness to pre-war Germany, occupied Amsterdam, and the Bergen-Belsen of Anne Frank, and shares the warning of the Diary of Anne Frank: we lose our humanity when children are forced to normalize hatred. -Annemarie Toebosch, Director of Dutch and Flemish Studies, Lecturer of Anne Frank in Context, University of MichiganAs Holocaust memory moves into an uncertain future, Irene Butter's memoir will play an important role in keeping memory of the event alive. It also serves as a testament to one person's ability to build a life of meaning and hope in the wake of this horrible event. -Jamie L. Wraight, PhD, Director, The Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive, University of Michigan-DearbornDr. Irene Butter is a remarkable woman who made a conscious decision to be a survivor, not a victim of the Holocaust. Her story has an inestimable impact on students. They witness her dedication to live a meaningful life of activism based on her belief that we can make the world a better place. -Suzanne Hopkins, Saline Middle School, retired educator, Saline, MichiganFor many years Irene Hasenberg Butter did not speak of her own experience of the Holocaust but like her brother, Werner, got on with the headlong rush of making a new life in the United States. After the treachery and horror of the Bergen- Belsen Concentration Camp, learning to live as Holocaust survivors was work enough. With this book, Irene has given the world a deeply personal account of her own family's experience that bravely reveals how much all the terrible losses of the Holocaust meant not just in World War II but, sadly, today as well. -Jane Jarboe Russell, author, The Train To Crystal City

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