Book Review: "They Went Left" By Monica Hesse

Tense prose, Raw Emotions, Heartfelt memories!

One thing was promised and that one thing was so God awful and powerful that I don't know how anyone can read this and not be on their knees in tears.

The relationship between Zofia and her brother Abek was so full of hope, life, and futuristic goals until the soldiers entered to change their worlds forever.

It's 1945 after the liberation when so much chaos was brutally infused into the minds and souls of those left behind. Little was written during these brutal historical events to account for the time after the disbanding of the army unit. So much suffering from these atrocities and yet those memories still haunt so many who had no idea what was left or right or why trains were needed for transport.

Why were children's clothes being torn off? Why did families have to be forced into separation or part with valuables?

Many of us who've read or lived to experience it know these answers but do our young minds know the importance of this historical past and the documents that exist?

More than 1 million people murdered in Aushwitz the most infamous Nazi Holocaust Camp.
Jewish individuals were banned from work, school, having careers, and ultimately to live an impoverished life. They were forced into hard labor under frigid and horrid conditions by the Germans upon the streets, within factories, and sadly on the front line of the concentration camps.

I've read many books by Elie Wiesel and I've never finished one without being brought to tears.

The truth is so unbelievable that it's frowned upon as fiction which for those of us who survived abusive situations knows all too well.

Those who speak about their private encounters or personal hardships are viewed as not credible nor believable and shunned into silence. Not because what they're noting isn't truth, or accurate, or reliable but because people have a hard time accepting truths nor wish to be held accountable and responsible for their actions. Case in point today's political atmosphere.
The 'singing forest' where tortured prisoners from Buschenwald went to die kicking and screaming is just part of this journey of truths.

Truth be known the war didn't end the prejudices or injustices but it did place it under closer inspection as much of what we witness today across our nation.
It's a sad state of affairs when history repeats itself. When just today we had a woman pulled out of her home for stating the truths about alleged corruption centering upon altered stats down in Florida. https://twitter.com/GeoRebekah/status...

If you think this isn't happening today it's but under disguise of darkness, behind closed doors, and even in public view yet nothing is being done. People are terrified, living in fear, afraid to go outside.

I know the intimidation, the threats, the verbal tirades, the false accusations because I happily divorced a malignant narcissist and lived to tell the truths.
Yet, every corner of my life was uprooted and destroyed and this toxicity now plays out before our very eyes.

Postwar Europe was still experiencing non isolated occurrences from murders to massacres, homes fully destroyed, in which many immigrated back to the very camps that they had become liberated from.

Filled with sadness but resurrected with hope is the best way to describe this amazing work !