Hanna Griner was born into a Jewish family of farmers in the period between the two world wars.
While all of Europe was still licking its wounds from the terrible conflict, Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany changes the rules of the game and with them, also the lives of European Jews.
Budapest, 1942. The Jews of Hungary, among them Hanna and her family, are not left unscathed by the new decrees. On the eve of the holiday of Shavuot, they are taken to Auschwitz, where they become separated--Hanna and her sister to life, her parents and grandfather to the gas chambers.
The two sisters are left alone, but their strong will and the mutual support they give each other allow them to survive.
The war did not break Hanna's spirit and immediately after the end of the conflict, she returns to the city of her childhood, where she gets married and becomes pregnant.
While carrying her eldest daughter in her womb Hanna makes Aliyah to the Land of Israel arriving right in the midst of the War of Independence, and her husband is immediately recruited into the military.
Life in the young, newly established state is anything but easy, yet slowly, Hanna and her husband manage to build their home and raise a family.
This is the inspiring story of Hanna Griner who, against all odds, survived the Nazi atrocities on the way to the newborn State of Israel, where she moved on to raise an exemplary family.
