A Lublin Survivor: Life Is Like a Dream, Paperback

Eva Szek's memoir describes the Nazi onslaught against Jews in her beloved city of Lublin in Poland, an important center of Jewish religion and culture. Eva recounts her fearless fight not to fall into German hands and to save her family. Her experiences under German occupation, her struggle to survive and her subsequent liberation is an historical account of the tragedy of a Jewish community destroyed. Eva asked her daughter Esther to take down her life story. A Lublin Survivor: Life is Like a Dream provides an extraordinarily complete and descriptive picture of life in prewar and liberated Lublin.

Esther Minars documents her mother's wartime survival, transcribing verbal testimony to book form. Engaged deeply with historical records, the memories recorded are of a vibrant pre-war Jewish Lublin life extinguished forever.