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Until Our Last Breath
Reading and Book Signing with Laurel Corona
 When the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, the Jews of Lithuania were the first targets in the program known as The Final Solution. In the crowded ghetto of Vilna, many Jews found ways to fight back. After the ghetto was liquidated, survivors of the Vilna resistance movement formed Jewish partisan units and continued to sabotage the German war effort until eventually they participated alongside the Soviet army in the liberation of their city. Until Our Last Breath: A Holocaust Story of Love and Partisan Resistance tells the story of the partisans of Vilna through one young couple, Leizer and Zenia Lewinson Bart, who met and married in the ghetto and later, in the forests of Lithuania, were members of famed poet and activist Abba Kovner's unit, the Avengers.
 Written by San Diego City College professor Laurel Corona, and based on years of research by the Barts' son Michael, Until Our Last Breath is described by reviewers as “a narrative of great but controlled power,” “carefully nuanced and beautifully written,” “appeal[ing] equally to the head and the heart.”
Laurel Corona is the author of two historical fiction novels, The Four Seasons and Penelope's Daughter, and approximately 20 Young Adult titles for Lucent Books. Copies of Until Our Last Breath will be available for purchase at the reading.
For more information about the book and the author, visit www.uolb-corona.com.
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