The Boy Who Survived Auschwitz

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Levi Lerman was a cheerful and lively boy from the town of Ostrowiec. He was only fourteen years old when his life took an unimaginable turn with the outbreak of World War II in 1939, when the Nazi forces invaded Poland and occupied his hometown. Over a painful six-year period, Levi endured a harsh life in the Ostrowiec ghetto, suffered devastating losses, performed exhausting forced labor, and survived countless transfers to concentration camps, including the extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. In the middle of this torment, a single light guided him through the darkness: his unbreakable determination to live and to protect his father¿a strength that helped him survive against all odds.

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Adriana Lerman was born on November 3rd, 1971, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a writer, a researcher specialized in the Holocaust, a Hebrew teacher, and a pharmacist. In her first book, El dolor de estar vivo [The pain of being alive] (Editorial El Ateneo, 2022), she unearths the past of her grandfather Salomón Lerman during the Nazi-era. This work has received wide recognition both in Argentina and abroad. Since then, Adriana has dedicated herself to giving lectures at the national and international level, sharing her family's story of the Holocaust and teaching about the consequences of discrimination and hatred. In September 2023, Adriana Lerman was honored at the Buenos Aires Legislature for her contribution in telling the story of her immigrant grandfather, a story which reflects his struggle and resilience.  In November 2023, the Benei Tikva community recognized her work of recovering her ancestors' history and awarded her the Jai Prize for her contribution to preserving the memory of the Holocaust. She was praised as a woman of great determination, who, by working through an extensive archive of documents left by her grandfather, was able to reconstruct the history that marked her family: a history of the pain and loss they endured during the Nazi era. Her determination and passion for her roots led her to write her second book, The boy who survived Auschwitz (Editorial El Ateneo, 2025), where she presents the complete story of her only relatives who survived the concentration camps, paying homage both to them and to all the victims of Nazism.

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