This book "It Kept Us Alive: Humor in the Holocaust" offers a positive answer to the question of how humor helped cope with the terrible reality. Interviews with survivors describe horrific events intertwined with macabre humor. Humor during the Holocaust did not diminish the objective experiences but alleviated the emotional response to the horrors. Humor and laughter can help strengthen, heal, and maintain mental and physical health. Chaya Ostrower classifies the types of humor and jokes and studies their respective functions in the ghettos, concentration camps, and death camps. Included in the book are humorous ditties, songs, and cabaret sketches, as well as the unique story of.