Miami, FL – WEBWIRE – Tuesday, May 9, 2023
For some, a dark past is best forgotten. For Leah Cik Roth, a Holocaust Survivor, it is a reminder of perseverance, survival, and strength. In her memoir, My Eyes Looking Back at Me: Insight Into a Survivors Soul, she finally musters the courage to tell her story; a story beautifully and exceptionally written by someone who has grown close to her heart, Menucha Meinstein.
Motherless at the young age of five and grew to fend for herself as an adolescent, Leah has experienced some earlier traumas. However, the unforgiving genocide was one that scarred her for life. Unable to tell her side of the story, she kept most of her haunting memories to herself. But when Menucha Meinstein entered her life as a volunteer, she was finally given the chance to let her voice be heard.
Her memoir reaches back to her yesterdays her survival in four concentration camps, the pain and anguish of losing the ones she loved, the hardships she had faced, the joy of finding relatives, and the milestones and triumphs she achieved throughout her life as a Survivor. For people like her, talking about the past is like reopening wounds. But as a strong, courageous woman, Leah is determined to finally share her Holocaust memories to the world. In this series of events and emotions, get ready to look back on history in the eyes of a woman who survived and lived.
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My Eyes Looking Back at Me: Insight Into a Survivors Soul
Publisher: One to One; 1st edition (March 26, 2015)
Language: English
Paperback: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 0986129305
ISBN-13: 978-0986129308
About the Author
Drawn to working with the elderly since she was a teen in Seattle, Menucha Meinstein volunteered at hospitals and old age homes. After retiring to Miami, armed with an M.A. In Psychology from Antioch University, she developed a technique of self-guided therapeutic journaling, Soul-Writing, to nurture optimism and resilience. She used the technique in a Chai Lifeline class for mothers of medically fragile children.