Still Alive was written by Ruth Klüger. Her story was pretty much how I expect a Holocaust memoir would be. She gave recounts of her life growing up during the Holocaust. However, I wasn’t expecting her to be a child in her story. The one aspect that stood out to me was the fact that she was a female Holocaust survivor writing her memoir. Most published survivors are men, which is sad to say that most female survivors were not “important enough” to have their stories told. She even expresses her defiance through the title, “Still Alive” ; she is still alive and she is not backing down and she wants people to know her story. Klüger defies the odds and tells her story, not only as a female survivor but also as a child survivor. In class, a classmate brought up the fact that children handle traumatic experiences better than adults. That is why when Klüger was told that she did not have a childhood due to being a Jewish child in the Holocaust, she pointed out that she did in fact have a childhood because the Nazis and Jewish persecution was all she knew – it was normal to her. The narration of her telling her memories made it easy to read because there wasn’t much analysis like there was with Levi. Hopefully, there will be more female authors throughout the course of this class to continue what Klüger started, and tell the world what it was like to be a female Jew during the Holocaust.