I Am Because of You (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781514259962)

Miriam Dobin is married with three children and has worked as an Early Childhood educator for over 20 years. She graduated Yeshiva University Stern College for Women with a degree in Education and received her certification as Teacher of the Handicapped from Kean University. She is a licensed teacher in the State of New Jersey. Miriam currently serves as the Head Teacher in the Early Childhood division of a local school. Miriam has taught Holocaust studies to middle school students and is deeply committed to furthering knowledge of this period in history. Upon the death of her beloved aunt, Miriam promised herself that the time had come to write the family history. Her task took her deep into the family records and half way around the world to the places where her parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins lived before they were imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps and where almost all of them were killed. Miriam was raised not only by her two parents but also by her aunt and uncle, all four of them survivors. Together these four individuals reared a child who, for them, embodied a future that they could hardly have believed would ever come. Miriam's life is a living legacy to the strength and perseverance of these four individuals, who together instilled in Miriam a strong sense of responsibility and commitment to Jewish life, family and continuity.