Dancing on a Powder Keg: The Intimate Voice of a Young Mother and Author, Her Letters Composed in the Lengthening Shadow of the Third Reich; Her Poems from the Theresienstadt Ghetto. by Ilse WeberMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is not the first time that I've read a book that is about the Holocaust; some of them were memoirs of the survivors and those victims who died in that unfortunate and horrifying event. The most notable Holocaust victim is Anne Frank, and I can't help compare what happened to her to to Ilse Weber. This book contains the correspondence of Ilse to her friend, Lilian; reading these letters will drawn readers to what she and her family experienced before and during the Holocaust era.
Moreover, there are poems/ode of Ilse that were both beautifully written and heart-rending. Ilse wrote these poems as a secret way to inform Lilian on what's really happening to her and her family in the ghetto. Through her words, I was able to imagine how hard it was to endure the suffering inflicted on them. This book provides another glimpse to that dark period of the world history — reading this reminds us not only to remember the victims and what happened to them, but also to prompt readers that we should try to prevent it from happening again.
