Hope Dies Last

Nadzieja Umiera Ostatnia (Hope Dies Last), is Halina Birnbaum’s wartime memoir chronicling five years spent first in the Warsaw Ghetto, and then at various concentration camps, including Maidanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau. Birnbaum, a noted writer, later settled in Israel. In the eponymous film, Birnbaum returns to Poland forty years after having left.