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I wanted to do the right thing and serve Hashem in the best way possible — I just couldn’t. And the more I tried, the more my body rebelled.

I was stunned and devastated. Feeling that I had nothing more to live for, the only thing I could think of doing was taking my life

Until the day I got married, at the age of 20, I handed over every penny I earned to my father to help pay the bills

I said no. But there weren’t many other viable options, and my parents and siblings kept urging me to reconsider. So after a while, I said yes

She may have survived the war and built a successful professional life for herself, but part of her died in Auschwitz

She didn’t seem to understand that I had almost died. Or maybe she would have preferred it that way