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.

Memory. Post memory. Legacy. Discover a Holocaust story that transcends generations. One woman’s survival. A community’s legacy. A story that must be remembered.