"Thanks To My Mother" by Susie Weksler, Book Report - Susie Weksler's Biography During the Holocaust.

When you were eight years old, what were you doing? Maybe building a snowman with your friends in the winter, running through sprinklers in your backyard in summer, having sleepovers? Climbing on that new monkey bar set during recess, playing with Cabbage Patch Kid dolls? Sounds pretty normal, a pretty good life, doesn't it? Susie Weksler wishes she could be able to do that. But, no - when she was eight years old, in the …

…a job at the reclamation center for recycling trash. Although they were overjoyed to be out of the concentration camps and for the Nazis to have finally been defeated, it was distressing to find out that out of two grandparents, multiple aunts, cousins, and uncles, and Susie's father, only Susie and her mother remained alive. They grieved for their lost ones, but eventually turned over the page, and began a new chapter of their lives.