Luna Kaufman and her mother were the only two members of their family to survive the Holocaust. Today, she is a tireless champion of Jewish-Christian understanding, having been inspired by Sister Rose Thering, a Catholic nun who led the fight to eliminate anti-Semitism from school textbooks. Luna Kaufman teaches the truest and most profound meaning of forgiveness and reconciliation despite experiencing circumstances unimaginable to most people. The key to Luna's Life is, indeed, life! WHAT THEY ARE SAYING... "From the horror of the Holocaust, Luna Kaufman emerged determined to improve our world. An inspiring story from an incredible woman." Hon. Thomas H. Kean, Former Governor of New Jersey "Luna Kaufman has lived an uncommon life, which she has chronicled in these memoirs. The strength of character that enabled her to survive imprisonment during the darkest time of the 20th Century shines through even today. It is evident on the pages of this book. A remarkable life, a remarkable woman. I am very glad she chose to share her incredibly rich life with us in these pages." Monsignor Robert Sheeran, President Seton hall University "Luna's Life is a poignant memoir of a strong and determined Holocaust survivor who makes remarkably significant contributions to the Jewish and Christian communities -- and to Jewish-Christian dialogue and mutual understanding -- in the postwar period and until this very day. Rather than remain bitter, Kaufman felt that her wartime experiences sparked a need to teach tolerance and mutual respect." Jerusalem Post "The book tells us much about the human capacity not only for evil, but, more importantly, for goodness. And they can teach us much about what it means to be a Christian. Tales of Holocaust survivors can challenge, uplift Catholic readers." Eugene J. Fisher, former Associate Director for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. "A beautiful portrait of a quietly heroic life. This book is testimony not only to one extraordinary, very brave woman, but to the potential of the human spirit in all of us." Rabbi Irving Greenberg, Chair Emeritus, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council "I am thrilled that Luna s Life will reach a wide public. I see forged in these pages her strength, wisdom and concern for building a better world, one more beautiful and humane because she lived in it." Reverend David R. Bossman, Ph.D. Exec. Director, Sister Rose Thering Endowment, Seton Hall University "This is a remarkable book by a remarkable woman, all the more compelling for its transparent integrity. Honest, personal testimony...of a woman who left the prison camps with the conviction that life is too short to be wasted on hatred. Michael Redmond, Lifestyle Editor, Princeton Packet "From the horror of the Holocaust, Luna Kaufman emerged determined to improve our world. An inspiring story from an incredible woman. I highly recommend this book." Dr. Paul B. Winkler, Executive Director, New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education "(Luna) managed to turn the story of the tragic loss of most of her family and her torturous journey from concentration camps to freedom into a triumphant account of a life well lived and of reconciliation between Jews and Catholics." New Jersey Jewish News --Various Sources Luna s Life: A Journey of Forgiveness and Triumph is the story of Holocaust survivor Luna Kaufman of New York City and Watchung, N.J., as told in her own words. It s a remarkable book by a remarkable woman, all the more compelling for its transparent integrity, i.e., this is a memoir written by an intelligent, well-educated woman, not by a professional writer. That s one of its strengths. There s simply no mistaking this account for anything other than honest personal testimony. Born in 1926 in Krakow, Poland, of a prosperous and cultivated family, Ms. Kaufman lost most of her kin, including her father and her sister, as well as years of her youth, to the Holocaust. Along with her mother, she managed to survive imprisonment in the Krakow ghetto and the Plaszow, Hasag-Skarzysko and Leipzig concentration camps. She tells this story straight and true, providing such details as any attentive reader would need to know, but with a sobriety that endows this account with a dignity, even a nobility, that the Nazis and their collaborators did their very worst to strip away from this young woman and her people. Ms. Kaufman saw and felt more than she tells, the reader comes to realize, and this reticence make her testimony all the more powerful. Luna s Life is the story of a woman who left the prison camps with the conviction that life is too short to be wasted on hatred, that people of good will exist everywhere (even, sometimes, in hellish circumstances), and that a clean hand extended in friendship is a hand that ought to be taken, no matter whom it may belong to. It's a story of one woman's radiant optimism i