This is such a poignant memoir, one I will be reading again! I have read a number of books by survivors of the holocaust, and this book is once again unique, even though "some" of the story is familiar.....how the family came to be in a concentration camp, how the whole family was lost except for the mother, and how she carried many of her secrets to her grave, and how her experiences as a prisoner of the concentration camp, as a holocaust survivor shaped not only her life, but the lives of her daughter and ultimately her daughter's family. Sidonia Perlstein was an extremely strong woman, a real survivor, and her one great love in her life was her daughter, born after the war, and raised without a father. Sidonia instilled great pride into Hanna, and the story of the love of a mother for her daughter is infused into every word of the book.