Dr. Michael Berenbaum

"A chance remark at his father's funeral led Michael Bart, the son of two partisan fighters from the famed Nekamah Group (the Avengers) to piece together his parents' story before it was too late. The result is a narrative of great but controlled power that tells the story of his parents, or the struggles within the Vilna ghetto and of life in the ghetto's underground resistance and in life in the woods. The meticulously researched account is vivid and gives one a sense of that extraordinary time and the most difficult of circumstances in which a few brave Jews understood their plight and decided that while they could not determine whether they lived or died, they would live with dignity and fight the Germans. Until Our Last Breath is a son's homage to his mother and father, to the cause for which they offered their life, to their enormous courage and their singular love. Very well done indeed."

--Michael Berenbaum, Professor of Jewish Studies, American Jewish University, Former Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Former President and CEO of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation