Here There is No why

Download or read book Here There is No why written by Rachel Chencinski Roth and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of a Jew born in Warsaw in 1927 as Ruchama Rachel (Roma) Rotstein, to an Orthodox family. At an early stage of the German occupation her father fled to the Soviet zone of occupation and eventually reached Eretz Israel. Roth, her mother, and her three siblings were incarcerated in the Warsaw ghetto. Her siblings were deported in September 1942 and killed. Her mother then received a certificate for travel to Palestine for the family, sent by the father, but she was deported in January 1943 and killed. During the ghetto uprising, Roth was caught and deported to Majdanek. She was later transferred to Auschwitz, where she survived typhus fever, and then to Bergen-Belsen, where she was liberated. After the war she joined her father in Eretz Israel.