A Final Reckoning

A work of both childhood memory and adult reflection undergirded with scholarly research Ruth Herskovits Gutmann’s powerful memoir recounts her life not only as a concentration camp inmate and survivor, but also as a sister and daughter. Born in 1928, Gutmann and her twin sister, Eva, escaped the growing Nazi threat in Germany on a Kindertransport to Holland in 1939 . Gutmann’s compelling story captures many facets of the Jewish experience in Nazi Germany. She describes her early life in Hannove