"Hope Is the Last to Die" is the author's account of her expierience growing up in the warsaw ghetto, and her eventual deportation to, imprisonment in, and survival of the Majdanek, Auschwitz, Ravensbruck, and Neustadt-Glewe camps. In the beginning of the book Halina lives in a suburb of Warsaw, still very young, she doesn't understand the intensity of the situations to come. In 1940 a tall wall was built to seperate the Jewish Ghetto from the Aryan side of the city. Emplayed Jews recieved special work permits, which later on became the only way to secure one's life.The Ghetto streets were blocked and thousands of Jews in columns were dragged along to the Umschlag (the train to the death camps). Halina and her family began hiding in attics, cellars, and their last retreat, a bunker. Halina, her mother, and Hileks wife, Hela were taken to the womens camp...