Hasta que no estés en su lugar: Huellas del Holocausto Judío por Ilana Lamstein

It is during childhood, a childhood influenced by the fears and traumas of parents and their inability to process them, that basic experiences of fear, uncertainty, and emotional insecurity are transmitted to children.

It is precisely this quality that Lic. Ilana Lamstein exposes in her meticulous and exhaustive research, revealing the implications of global events that intersect with World War II in the private lives of specific German Jewish individuals.

"...we can get to know Ilana by reading her book, she captivates us with her methodical research, with the adrenaline of curiosity present on every page, with the charm with which she embarks on the extraordinary adventure of this book and her unyielding Jewish identity..."

"…I would like to highlight above all one element in particular, which is the care, and I would even dare to say the meticulousness with which Ilana mended Monica's life story.

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The way she delicately weaves those experiences, that told and untold story, in the face of a documentary reality, using very fine threads..."

From a sad and subjective story, Ilana Lamstein has written an illustrative and historical work. She skillfully interweaves the personal account of the central protagonist with the factual events of her experience.

With commendable objectivity, the author provides the German context of the 1930s and 1940s, original and translated documentation, period family photographs, statements from the protagonists, and her own observations, all of which give this narrative the necessary vitality and veracity.

I read your book and congratulate you on achieving the translation into German. I hope it is a success in Germany and elsewhere.

The last direct victims of Hitler and Auschwitz are disappearing... The long-proven historical account must be an imperative of the unique nature of the event, despite the distortions that arise through social media, some of which are completely detached from historical truth. With the disappearance of firsthand accounts from survivors, the emotion that these narratives evoke disappears irrevocably.

How can we confront this? The memory of the Shoah must remain indelible for future generations. For all of humanity, because in the era of social media and immediacy, we must invest time in thinking and making young people reflect.

The organization and machinery that made the extermination of millions of people possible go beyond imagination. Millions of Jews from all over Europe were taken to concentration camps, entire families were annihilated in the most vile manner.

The luckiest ones managed to escape and rebuild their lives in exile, carrying the scars of what they had experienced and passing on the memories to future generations. It is essential to keep this memory alive, preserving personal and family stories so that the horror of the Holocaust is never repeated. Lic. Ilana Lamstein undertook the task of reconstructing Mónica's story, a unique story among the many stories of exiles and refugees who were victims of the Nazi regime. The story tells of survivors and unexpected reunions, of new lives disrupted unexpectedly by the past.

With Mónica's story, Ilana Lamstein succeeds in meticulously and professionally bringing to life the story of a family and their fate amidst the horrors of the twentieth century, without neglecting the human aspect. Thanks to this research, Mónica's story will not be lost over time, but will endure so that future generations remain vigilant and prevent anything similar to the Holocaust from happening again.

“Hasta que no estés en su lugar  it is possible thanks to the effort and commitment to rescuing the memory of the Shoah. The dead, the mutilated and the tortured by Nazism do not have an expiration date.”