A Light in the Clouds

By Margalith Esterhuizen

Margalith and her older sister, Dorica, grow up in a warm, close-knit family in Romania, but at a young age, the girls tragically lose their mother. Just as they are readjusting to a new family life, their childhood abruptly comes to a brutal end -- Romania aligns itself with Nazi Germany and antisemitism boils over in their community. In 1941, Romanian soldiers force Margalith and her family from their home and send them on a devastating deportation march to the unknown. Crossing a river takes Margalith into Transnistria, a wretched land between borders, an expanse of thousands of kilometres containing more than a hundred ghettos and camps. This area, controlled by Romania, is where Jews like Margalith and her family are abandoned, left to die in desolation. A ghetto in the town of Murafa provides a bleak shelter where Margalith and her family struggle to keep starvation at bay until help arrives unexpectedly before war's end. Her journey to freedom and a new homeland provides both opportunity and heartache, and Margalith finds A Light in the Cloudsas she endures the darkness of her past to search out the bright future ahead.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1989719317
• ISBN13: 9781989719312
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"