The thought-provoking and original work centering on a grown son’s journey through his father’s horrifying ordeal during the Holocaust.

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

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

“… one of the most unique documents to appear after the Holocaust.” - Ilana Dayan, Galei Tsahal Radio Station, Jerusalem

"Suddenly two pairs of black boots appeared in the shrubbery near us… I looked up very, very slowly, from the boots to the uniforms and all the way up to the caps against the blue sky, and then quickly looked down… Two German officers… Finally, one of them addressed us in German, his attitude business-like, but with a touch of compassion, 'Mensch, du hast keine Zukunft (Man, you have no future).'”

Identity is a product of time and place. Who we are is inextricably linked to the forces of history.

The spellbinding memoirs of Holocaust survivor and artist Roman Halter (1927-2012).

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

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.

Living among the Dead is the award-winning story of one remarkable young woman's journey through the rise of the Nazi regime, the Second World War, and the aftermath.

Having suffered Holocaust trauma as a child, Robert Krell’s childhood is defined by slience and hiding. Sounds from Silence is his courageous attempt to shed light on his own story.

In this tragic tale, a young Ukrainian is ordered to kill Jews in order to be accepted by the Ukrainian Partisans, a dreadful ordeal he carries in secret to his death.

Berlin 1941. 11-year-old Wolf escapes Nazi Germany, attempts to build an American identity, and finally returns to Germany as a young American intelligence officer during the height of the Cold War.

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.

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.

The story of a child survivor, a Jewish boy who is hidden in the Netherlands during WWII and after the war is returned to his parents at age three. His porcelain psyche is damaged and his closest companions are fear and distrust.

Staying silent meant staying alive during the six years Krisia spent in ghettos and concentration camps. After surviving the Holocaust, she would remain silent for the rest of her life.

In Aftermath: Coming of Age on Three Continents, Berkovits brings a fresh perspective on the motivations and courage of a family who abandoned their former lives to forge a brighter future.

The frank account of a Holocaust survivor who fought to create a life freed from her past while battling bipolar disorder.

A triumph of strong will over evil.

Drawn from an unpublished memoir and long-buried journals, Dreaming of the River tells the harrowing true story of a mother secretly saving lives with smuggled medicine – knowing a firing squad awaits if she’s caught, and her 13-year-old daughter kilometers away – forced into bomb-making amid prisoners dying from TNT – whose survival hangs on whether her mother can reach her in time.

Wolf's story is relevant today, as it resonates with decent human beings who are concerned about morally corrupt leadership and self-serving corporations.

Defying Death on the Danube is a must-read story of strength, survival, and resiliency.

Covering the years 1938 through the present, Flower of Vlora is a lively, funny and tense first person account of Dr. Anna Kohen’s Romaniote-Jewish family in Albania, and how they were saved from the Nazis by Muslim Albanians.

A powerfully intimate family portrait, this memoir tells the remarkable story of a Jewish family's harrowing escape from Nazi Germany, and provides a unique window into the Jewish diaspora.

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.

The remarkable and deeply moving story of a German-Jewish doctor who survived WWII in the Netherlands.