Europe, World, History 

For young Leibel Sanik, the prosper-
ous Polish city of Piotrkow was like a
paradise on earth. The Sanik family lived
in a spacious and well-appointed
apartment which glowed with the warmth of hospitality and throbbed with the sounds of spiritual joy. Life was secure,
comfortable and immensely fulfilling-until German bombs began to fall on the
fateful first day of September, 1939.

Someday We 'll Be Free is the story of the disintegration of Leibel's beloved world.
Through his incredulous eyes, we see the
instinctive flight in search of a safe haven
that did not exist. We see the return to
Piotrkow with its harsh new realities of
ghetto life and forced labor. We see the
demise of the family, one by one, until
only young Leibel and his brother sur-
vive the liquidation of Piotrkow and the
deportation to the concentration camps.

In many ways, Leibel's story mirrors
survivors. What makes this memoir
remarkable, however, is its intense focus
on the endless battle against hunger,
thirst, cold, disease and exhaustion and
on the gradual reduction of existence to
its most basic elements-bread, water
and life. The tortured Jewish prisoners,
shadows of human beings, clung to every
moment of agony-filled life as if it were
the most precious thing in the world,
thinking only about the next piece of
bread, the next drink of water, the next
moment of life.

Someday We'll Be Free, the eighth
volume in The Holocaust Diaries collection, explores this state of mind and the faint
glimmer of hope that sustained it. And
through its eloquent descriptions and
images, we gain new insight into the
character of the survivors of the German
death machine; they survived because
they clung to the last flickering spark of
life with an illogical determination and
tenacity-and because liberation came
before that spark was extinguished. - from Amzon