Diese universelle, wahre Geschichte über innere Stärke, Einfallsreichtum und Optimismus wurde von Alexanders Enkel, Oren Schneider, dokumentiert und niedergeschrieben. Sie ist den mutigen Menschen gewidmet, die nicht aufgeben wollen.

Luba’s story begins in the small village of Ciechanowiec, rural Poland. The author takes us on an emotional journey through her childhood in a tightly knit Jewish community. She goes on to describe the Nazi invasion of Poland and her harrowing years in hiding from the Nazis.

Winter Light is about a sequence of serendipitous rescues—an emotional rags-to-riches story spanning decades through the milestones of an unexpectedly fortuitous life. At its core stands a little girl buffeted by huge historical events which she didn’t live through personally but which marked her forever.

A memoir shedding light on the silence that kept generations apart.

Growing up with an angry father and a distant mother, the author knew they had survived the Holocaust, but without a full understanding of what this really meant, or what it had truly cost them.

At age twelve, Moris Albahari, a Sephardic Jew living in Yugoslavia during World War II, escapes transport to a Croatian death camp, only to be found in the mountains of Bosnia joining Tito’s Partisan resistance movement fighting the Nazis.

When a  working class Jewish family goes into hiding in Nazi-occupied Paris, their neighbors band together to protect them.

Discover little-known Holocaust history and a daughter’s quest to know how her father survived. Julie Brill unearths her family’s lost Serbian past, learns secrets, and returns to her dad a small part of what the Nazis stole: his own family history.

A triumph of strong will over evil.

When Manny Hoffman and Rudi Klein are arrested and sent to Dachau’s notorious concentration camp, neither expect to find in each other something worth living for. Thrown together by chance, a tender and unforeseen relationship blossoms against a background of unspeakable evil. As they attempt to hold on to their humanity and each other, we also see glimpses into the lives and deaths of other camp inmates, showing that there is more that connects us, than that which divides us.

In this poignant memoir, the author uncovers her family’s hidden Holocaust history while navigating Austria’s reparation citizenship process, transforming a legal pursuit into a profound reflection on memory, identity, and what it means to both reclaim a lost heritage and gain a new place in today’s world.

When research reveals hushed WWII trauma embedded in a British family of Czech-Jewish ancestry.