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By Sara Hauptman as told to Sue A. Oliver
“You were a devil when you were younger and just look at you now,” my brother Jules said. “You’re so tiny. Aren’t you afraid to be in the cage with the lions and tigers?”
“No,” I assured him. “N***s and animals are a lot alike, and the animals are a lot more predictable.”
So there I was center ring. The Jewish lion tamer. The Lioness of Judah, the autobiography of Sara Hauptman, is a unique memoir of a young mother who chooses to fight against the N***s to protect her children. After a N**i raid where Sara nearly suffocates her infant daughter, she hides her children with her Gentile nanny and joins the resistance in Brussels, Belgium. Sara carries Allied parachutes, makes false identity papers, delivers messages for the underground, and participates in the bombing of a N**i-occupied building. During her resistance work she uses the cover of a lion tamer in the circus. After her arrest and deportation to Auschwitz, Sara becomes a sterilization victim of the infamous Dr. Mengele. Ironically later in Dachau, a German doctor saves Sara from being shot. Surviving both Auschwitz and Dachau, Sara endures a severe whipping, starvation, and the deaths of her family members. She is told her husband went to the gas chamber. In a Displaced Persons camp after the war, Sara meets General Eisenhower. After his invitation to immigrate to America, Sara does. However her struggles are not over. She has to cope with language barriers, poverty, flashbacks, physical disabilities, and racism here in the States. Her memoir is a combination of Schindler’s List and Steel Magnolias. Throughout her life, like a cornered lioness, Sara learned to fight back and to survive the unimaginable.
