With Outstretched Hands Liberation and a New Life

Walk into a World War II veterans meeting in Southern California and along with the soldiers you will find a woman who experienced first-hand the hate and atrocities of the Nazi war machine. She stands with a smile and an attitude that contradicts everything she has lived through. She lights up the room despite all the adversity she has faced. Of her attitude, she says: "I worked on it. Hate affects you. It affects your looks, your personality and your life. You have to let it go." Ebi Gabor is an author and public speaker. For 30 years she has given hundreds of presentations to schools, organizations, churches and synagogues throughout the United States. Thousands of letters from school children give testament to her life of hope and inspiration. Ebi's first book, The Blood Tattoo, tells of the horrors she and her family experienced during the war as they went from concentration camp to concentration camp, where the Nazis killed members of her family. Her story did not end when the war ended. During liberation, the United States Army moved in and rescued her and many others. This book is a personal account of how the American soldiers came to their rescue as World War II drew to a close.