"Hope Is the Last to Die" by Haline Birenbaum

Hope Is The Last To Die By: Halina Birenbaum <Tab/>"Hope Is the Last to Die" is the author's account of her expierience growing up in the warsaw ghetto, and her eventual deportation to, imprisonment in, and survival of the Majdanek, Auschwitz, Ravensbruck, and Neustadt-Glewe camps. In the beginning of the book Halina lives in a suburb of Warsaw, still very young, she doesn't understand the intensity of the situations to …

…to your eyes. People, no matter what they did or have done, do not deserve to be treated like animals. In reading of these horrific acts you will recieve a new found respect for life, for those around you, for everyday things you may have previously taken for granted. Such as food, a bathroom, a blanket, your right to life, education. Basically everything, because they had nothing, nothing but hope. <Tab/>