5/25/2023 0 Comments Managing bubbie by russel lazegaCan you believe it? All day these people vait around to die-like a death camp. “It’s a concentration camp,” she’d shout, pounding her lunch tray on the table. The memoir uses alternating chapters to meld two special stories: 1) an action-packed biographical tale of a young mother racing through Nazi-occupied Europe, surviving on her wits as she struggles to find any escape for her three children and 2) a heartwarming and even humorous Golden Girls-style story of that same that same headstrong survivor some 40-odd years later as her confounded family grapples with the question: how you manage a cantankerous old bird who time and again has escaped the unthinkable by refusing to stay in line? The answer of the book is: you probably don't.īubbie's thoughts on the fifth assisted living facility she was about to be thrown out of: But seriously, for those interested in the holocaust memoir genre this book brings something new: a perspective that mines the hope, love, compassion and even humor that a strong human heart can find - despite confronting the most horrific circumstances.
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