BROKEN DREAMS A Survivor Story eBook Ellen Benton Feinstein
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The current rise in anti-Semitism is due in part to the fact that the younger generations know almost nothing about the Holocaust, other than the fact that six million Jews were killed. The heart and the mind do not connect with a number, so this fact has little meaning for the reader. We tend to make an emotional connection with the personal story of someone who suffered during and after the war. That's why it is important for survivors to tell their stories. The number of survivors dwindles daily, giving a sense of urgency to this project. The devastation of war does not end when a peace treaty is signed; the destructive aftermath of war can continue for generations.
This book tells the story of one family that was torn apart by World War II. Acting on a promise she made to her sister - who was killed by the Nazis - Eda found and adopted her sister's child, who was hidden during the war by a Polish Catholic family. This set up a life-long love-hate mother-daughter relationship, filled with sacrifice, guilt, and resentment, as described in the heart of the book.
The family endured many hardships - including six months in a DP camp and a difficult sea voyage - to escape from Poland to America, only to find that they cannot escape the psychic damage of the war. Their psychic scars are manifested in their interactions with each other as well as with the people they encounter. The final chapter reveals how the daughter, after thinking for more than seventy years that she was an only child, discovers that she has a brother living in California.
BROKEN DREAMS A Survivor Story eBook Ellen Benton Feinstein
I read a lot of books and rarely comment on them but this one was terribly mean-spirited. The author went through a lot of hardships but that does not excuse the horrible things she said about the mother, Eda, who took her in and raised her to the best of her ability. The majority of the second half of the book was devoted to downgrading and belittling her mother, even finding fault with her very elderly mother who had a major stroke when she tried to straighten the author's sleeve. Really. This book was very disrespectful of her mother and I'm sure it would have hurt her mother terribly to know what was written about her. Sad, This one's for you, Eda.Product details
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BROKEN DREAMS A Survivor Story eBook Ellen Benton Feinstein Reviews
The author is really telling two compelling stories in her book. One set of stories involve how Ellen and her adopted family survived the Holocaust and their transition to America. Another set of stories involve the difficult relationship Ellen had with her adopted mother. The stories remind you how horrible events can shape people's lives and dreams, yet it also reveals how people can rise above the challenges and prosper. Overall, it was wonderful book to read.
Very thought-provoking, honest, personally and historically detailed autobiography! Even the references are remarkable and helpful in studying this topic. In fact I knew this person in high school but I had no idea she has such writing skills.
I really enjoyed Ellen's book. It has a nice flow and is easy to read. A very down to earth book, it tells a true story about Ellen's separation from her family during the Holocaust and her struggles through life afterward. Ellen provides a very personal and heartfelt account. Ellen is a strong woman and her survival through difficult circumstances is an engaging story.
So sad for what should have been; so sad for the lost and missed opportunities for a family; so joyous for the triumph of the human spirit. Despite all that shaped Ellen's childhood and early life, she emerges cheerful, resourceful and without bitterness which makes her story more powerful. Lucky for readers that she has chosen to share her remarkable life. Thank you Ellen.
This is an epic tale of survival, wisdom and truths. I can’t believe what this brave author lived through. This novel did not disappoint. I felt like my aunt was sitting down with me and telling me her amazing life story. Highly recommend.
A hero is one who does the ordinary under extraordinary circumstances…and Ellen Feinstein certainly qualifies as a hero. Broken Dreams is a heroic story about connections, resilience and hope.
As Ellen goes back and reconnects with the trauma of her early childhood in Poland and the adjustments to life with her adoptive parents in Europe and finally in the United States, we are able to connect with her on a personal level. The vast majority of us have not suffered through the terror of surviving the Holocaust or the loss of family in the Holocaust. But, many of us have experienced our own terrors in childhood manifested in multiple ways of dysfunction – abuse, neglect, violence, addictive families and so on. So, we can connect in a very personal way with what Ellen lived through and grew through, just as we lived through and grew through our own nightmares. Thus, Ellen’s story becomes a beautiful and heroic story about the resilience of the human spirit as we watch Ellen embrace her difficult past and grow into the successful woman she is – daughter, wife, mother and professional. We connect with Ellen because our lives also stand as testaments to the resilience in many of us as we became far more than our early circumstances would have let us believe possible. And for those who read Broken Dreams and are still in the midst of that battle of survival, Ellen paints a picture of hope…that today does not have to be the last best day of one’s life, that yesterday does not have to doom all our tomorrows. Growth is possible if one has the will to become and the support of family, friends and community. We, too, like Ellen, can “soldier on” with our ordinary lives under extraordinary circumstances.
As one who grew up in the shadow of friends of parents and grandparents who fled Nazi Germany or were able to survive the Holocaust, Ellen’s story is one more very personal account – a vivid and powerful statement – that the Holocaust was real. In a world too often filled with blame and denial about history, the only way we, as human beings, can remain resilient in the face of tragedy after tragedy today is to connect with the reality of our past and draw strength and determination from that reality that we can and will work to make certain that events such as the Holocaust never happen again. That has to be our hope.
Broken Dreams is a valuable addition to the personal testimonies about the Holocaust and the psychological literature on resilience. Thank you, Ellen!
Keith Mahaffey
How does one write a review of something one is so closely connected with. I bought this book because Ellen's father was our family doctor. He administered vaccines and tetanus shots, made house calls, stitched up my sister's wounds and his house and office were the next shady street over from ours in the village of Clinton NY. Ellen and I attended the same school, though years apart, and there were rumors of how her family came to America. The truth is different, but equally harrowing. This is not your average holocaust story, because her family fled after the war due to continued persecution and annihilation of Jews in Eastern Europe. It was interesting to hear her account of her life, to add her perceptions of her father, the town and the school added to my own, to be able to visualize so clearly her descriptions. This is also a very interesting psychological study into the mind of a persecuted child, and how she eventually manages to understand herself.
I read a lot of books and rarely comment on them but this one was terribly mean-spirited. The author went through a lot of hardships but that does not excuse the horrible things she said about the mother, Eda, who took her in and raised her to the best of her ability. The majority of the second half of the book was devoted to downgrading and belittling her mother, even finding fault with her very elderly mother who had a major stroke when she tried to straighten the author's sleeve. Really. This book was very disrespectful of her mother and I'm sure it would have hurt her mother terribly to know what was written about her. Sad, This one's for you, Eda.
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