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beautifully written memoir, weaving together memories of Miriam's enchanting Polish childhood and the stark reality of her Holocaust experiences with her life after liberation and her trip back to the places she once knew.
InMiriam Kominkowska was nine years old, living happily with her loving family in the small town of Lubraniec.
Then, on Septemberst, the Nazis invaded Poland, In the Shadow of Death is the story of young Miriam's resilience and fierce determination to live, as she experienced the terrible devastation of the Lodz ghetto, endured the loss of her family, and survived the grim horrors of Auschwitz and BergenBelsen.


Miriam arrived in America not long after her liberation in, Over the next sixtyfive years she built a rich and rewarding new life in her adopted country, rarely mentioning the events in her past.
Eventually she joined the speakers bureau of the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center and began speaking out

against prejudice and hatred.
Inshe and a small group of fellow survivors traveled back to Poland and the killing camps, gathering soil and ash to consecrate the Oregon Holocaust Memorial.
Miriam's memoir of survival is interspersed with her narrative of that return journey to the painful landscapes of her youth.
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