“The same way the troubles came all of a sudden and we had nothing and our lives were in danger — the same thing happened with the shock of liberation. It was unbelievable. We just felt it was unbelievable that we were free that we’d survived.” Esther Austern may have reached her ninetieth year but she’s still a dynamo. She recently published a memoir about her postwar journey from refugee to a new life in America Satan Unmasked: True to Color. It’s a project that was almost 70 years in the making. And as she talks about those years it’s with remarkable vividness. Of course she has a remarkable story to tell — a story that suggests she would have made a pretty good secret agent if she hadn’t chosen to marry and raise a Torah family instead.