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Reviewed by Bernadette Longu for Readers' Favorite
The Girl Who Counted Numbers by Roslyn Bernstein is a fast-moving story of discovery, growing up, acceptance, and romance. It takes place in 1961 during the time of the Eichmann Trials that were held in Jerusalem. The main character is Susan Reich, who is sent to Israel by her father to look for his missing older brother Yakov Reich, who stayed behind in Rozwadow, Poland, just before the war started. Susan is obsessed with counting and counts everything. It seems to ground her and gets her to focus on the job at hand. At the Mayer Café, she meets and befriends Ruth, who will have a profound influence on her life. In Jerusalem, everyone was either watching or listening to the Eichmann Trials on television or the radio, which annoyed her. Everyone was only focused on the trial when there were so many more things that needed to be done for the living.
In The Girl Who Counted Numbers by Roslyn Bernstein, as the trial draws to an end, each character learns to either forgive themselves for surviving the Holocaust, for being gay, or simply for coming from a privileged background in America. Susan takes the reader on a most important and interesting journey of discovery and growth. The end of the story brings joy to the reader as what is hoped for happens; not as expected, but even better. This is a book of self-discovery and is well worth more than one read. The author took me on a path of discovery and showed me just how much the Holocaust affected those who lived through it, those who survived, and how they were not really able to forget it. People tried to move on and learn to live with the fact that they survived, but many did not. I enjoyed reading Susan's story and learned a lot.
