Book Review: *Saving the Fragments...

*Saving the Fragments by Isabella Leitener and Irving A. leitner*

This is the sequel to *Fragments of Isabella: A Memoir of Auschwitz* by the same authors. You can read that review here. Isabella is also the author a children's book we used this year in school: The Big Lie. I really do recommend the Big Lie for elementary students who are studying the ww2 time period. It is also one of the few remaining books from my Spring Reading Thing List.

In this book we travel with Isabella, Rachel and Chicha from the moment of their escape while on a death march to Bergen-Belsen until they arrive in New York and are reunited with their father.

I had never thought much of the unrest of the time. I'd never thought of the long road ahead for survivors who had no homes, family, and such left. I guess in most of the books I've read those months of searching for family, for a future were glossed over.

I found parts of this book to be bleak. I kept wishing that Isabella would meet Corrie ten Boom, or really the Jesus of Scripture. The book filled me with awe at the strength of the human character and yet with despair at how truly terrible humans can be. These girls went from the terrors of Dr. Mengele to the trial of attempted rape by liberating soldiers.