"From its opening pages, in which she recounts her own premature birth, triggered by terrifying rumors of an incipient pogrom, Bernstein's tale is clearly not a typical memoir of the holocaust. She was born into a large ..."From its opening pages, in which she recounts her own premature birth, triggered by terrifying rumors of an incipient pogrom, Bernstein's tale is clearly not a typical memoir of the holocaust. She was born into a large family in rural romania and grew up feisty and willing to fight back physically against anti-semitism from other schoolchildren.