Sentenced to Live

A Survivor's Memoir

Plot

Chs. 1-10 (p. 7-111) relate the author's early childhood in Jasina, Czechoslovakia (which became part of Hungary in March 1939), her family's increasingly difficult situation after the Nazi occupation of Hungary in March 1944, and their subsequent deportation to Auschwitz. Describes the struggle for survival - along with her sister - in Auschwitz, their transfer as slave laborers to Nuremberg, and their liberation in May 1945. The rest of the author's family perished in the Holocaust.