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Full Description
This is the story of one woman, Lola Lieber, a Hungarian-Polish Jewess
who survived and has chosen during her lifetime to tell the story of
the ordeals of her survival and the strength of her faith and courage
against all odds. It is also the memoir of a marriage that was a true
working partnership as well as a marital bond of extraordinary depth.
With her husband, Mechel, beside her, Lola defied authority, confronted
the devil Eichmann in person, never giving up her faith in God and her
belief that she and Mechel would be together at the end. The title of
this book comes from a comment Mechel made at a bittersweet time in
their lives. His words: There will be a world after this, thankfully,
would turn out to be true.
You are about to embark on a journey
that begins in Hungary, in the town of Munkach, goes forward into
Krynica and on into Krakow, Niepolomice, the Bochnia Ghetto, Kosice,
Budapest, Debrecen, Bucharest and finally Munich. It is an adventure of
harrowing events and many close calls. It is, in the end, the story of
the survival of a woman who will go on in her life to help repair the
lost tapestry of Jewish life and to become a mother, grandmother,
great-grandmother, as well as an accomplished artist.
About the Author
Lola [Leser] was a privileged sixteen-year-old in 1939 when Germany
invaded Poland. The horrors of the Holocaust overtook her almost
immediately when she moved to Krakow, Poland, after living for years
with her maternal grandparents in Munkach, at that time in
Czechoslovakia. It was there, in her grandparents enchanted garden, that
she discovered her artistic talents.
Before she had a chance to
fully mature, Mechel Lieber swept her up into a marriage that was to
turn into a loving partnership. That union saw them through years of
hiding, of fleeing from shelter to shelter and from city to city, often
escaping capture by a hairsbreadth. During those horrid war years, which
included weeks of starvation and periods of imprisonment, they lost
almost all of their loved ones and witnessed firsthand the unbelievable
bestiality and depravities of the Nazis.
Through six harrowing
years Lola clung both to her husband and to her staunch faith in the One
Above, Who granted them both many miracles. It is that faith and her
traditional upbringing that propelled Lola to uphold her Jewish values
and traditions under the most adverse conditions. Lola was ever
conscious that she was a link in the eternal chain of Jewish survival
and continuity against all odds.
Today in her eighties, Lola
still paints and is a successful artist. Her work has been exhibited in
many art galleries throughout the United States and is in the permanent
collection of the San Francisco Museum of Art. Her paintings are part of
the Yad Vashem archives in Jerusalem and are in a number of private
collections. She still maintains a gallery in the heart of Chassidic
Boro Park in Brooklyn, New York. Lola is well-known and is often
commissioned to paint portraits. Her works encompass a wide range of
styles including traditional, impressionistic as well as modern.
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