In an article from LA Times called “Holocaust Survivor Provides a Lesson in Perseverance”, the reporter recaps the speech a Holocaust survivor named Sam Silberberg gives to fourth and fifth graders about his experience. While in the concentration camps, Silberberg’s entire family had been killed by Nazis except his mother. With some creativity, persistence, and withstanding the camps, Silberberg reunites with his mother. “This was just the break Silberberg needed as he eventually reunited with his mother. The rest of his immediate family, including his father, died at the hands of the Nazis.” If Sam had given up and thought that he may never see his mother again, he never would have seen her. But, because of his perseverance, Silberberg and his mother were reunited. Mother and son are reunited because of their love and belief in each other. Like Elie, other Holocaust survivors have written memoirs. Many are known well today. One of these survivors is Mariam Blumenthal Lazan who is known for writing the memoir Four Perfect Pebbles. An article from The Mirror TITLE OF ARTICLE website states “ Lazan testified to the power of hope and human beings ability to persevere and overcome adversity”. Perseverance and their persistence to live on carried these people through the worst years of their…