Slice of MIT
Somewhere There Is Still a Sun (Alumni Books Podcast)
As a young boy growing up in Prague, Michael Gruenbaum '53 witnessed firsthand the Nazi occupation of Prague before his family was sent to Terezin, a concentration camp. Seventy years after liberation, Gruenbaum penned a memoir of his life at Terezin. Published in 2015, Somewhere There Is Still a Sun recounts Gruenbaum's ordeals in Terezin, along with some of his life after the war. "I suddenly feel some sort of strange obligation to live some sort of perfect life," Gruenbaum writes of his emergence from Terezin, "one packed with heroic acts, so incredible I can't even begin to imagine what they might be."