This novel vividly brings to life the day to day emotional challenges faced by three Jewish-American girls who just want their Holocaust survivor mother to be happy.

This true story begins when war breaks out. Hetty and  Fritz have not yet met. Following Adolf Hitler’s rise to power and the German occupation of the Netherlands, armed soldiers appear on every street in Amsterdam.

Born in the shadow of the Holocaust, twelve writers illuminate how resilience, creativity, love, and hope emerge from  a legacy of trauma.

Raised on a Catskills chicken farm and now a Manhattan psychiatrist, Michelle Friedman confronts the legacy of Holocaust trauma and family violence, seeking to understand what makes one person break, and another survive.

Intimate and historically sweeping, this is a testament to the endurance of memory and the resilience of a single family who refused to be erased. Through the voice of his mother, Ray Kaner – a fiercely intelligent girl, who survived four years in the Łódź ghetto, slave labor, and near death in Bergen-Belsen – Dr. Charles Kaner reconstructs her shattering experience during the Holocaust, the power of sisterhood, and the extraordinary life that followed. Interwoven with his own journey as a second-generation survivor, Kaner traces how Ray transformed her trauma into action, helping establish one of the first Holocaust testimony projects in America and laying groundwork for the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City.