Mala's Cat : A Memoir of Survival in World War II

A greatly heartfelt book about a young girl who manage to survive on her own during the WW2 & the Holocaust/Shoah in particular. Not a single survivor story is like any other one, it does not matter whether two people have been through the very same traumatic experience in the same place etc their stories would differ enormously from one another. I’ve read about the Holocaust since I first learned about it in school when I was around 9-10 years old, & I haven’t stopped reading about it since, I find every single person whose book I’ve read to be an extraordinary story. I cannot think of any other event in our history that has been more extreme & violent than the Holocaust. The extreme amount of suffering, pain & “invisible” scars left within every single individual who experienced the Holocaust has always left me wondering how so many of the survivors managed to cope with it all & how they found the strength to continue to live their lives afterwards. I’ve tried, but it’s not manageable for me to even begin to imagine how I’d comprehend the knowledge that parts of my family had been exterminated, the immense pain, & loss would be unbearable, and yet again and again every testimony I read from a survivors, I find myself in a position of deep sadness and simultaneously a feeling of great respect for each and every single survivor’s strength. The magnitude of the Holocaust is inconceivable against any other historical event in the human history, and the pain inflicted on every survivor is profound, hence I cannot imagine that it’d ever be possible for someone who has survived to ever fully recover from the gruesome trauma that was inflicted upon the survivors of the Holocaust! I have heard about generational trauma & the more books I read the better I understand what generational trauma is really about. As for me and for anyone who hasn’t themselves experienced the Holocaust it’s impossible to completely comprehend what a survivors have had to experience and endure and how they found strength to be able in continuing living their lives simultaneously as they are also always carrying the weight of this horrible experience brought upon them! I’ve the utmost respect for all survivors of the Holocaust, The Shoah and of course I’ve an equal amount of respect for everyone who lost their lives in this tragedy. The Shoah/the Holocaust is an example of a tragedy that is impossible to comprehend and that’s why I’ll always continue to read every testimony I can find. Thank you to the author of Mala’s Cat it’s as I wrote in the beginning an immensely impactful and heartfelt book. A book I wish everyone will read/listen to. Respectfully, Grace