Divine Corners
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.
More info →The Silk Factory
A memoir about the Holocaust, generational trauma, and the process of discovering how little we know.
More info →Never Fitting In
Never Fitting In follows a daughter's passage from a frightened child to an adult coping with inherited trauma as she turns to food for comfort and finds answers to lifelong unanswered questions.
More info →The Cello Still Sings
A sweeping history of three generations darkened by the long shadow of the Holocaust, The Cello Still Sings is a vivid, moving, and true story of secrets kept, of personal discovery, and of the power of music to heal and to unite.
More info →90 Charles Street
At 90 Charles Street, the doors do not close and the dead and the living move seamlessly together. As Jennifer renovates her crumbling family home, she reckons with what it means for a house to hold the voice of a family.
More info →The Fire and the Bonfire
The thought-provoking and original work centering on a grown son’s journey through his father’s horrifying ordeal during the Holocaust.
More info →Winterlight
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.
More info →Out from the Shadows
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.
More info →The Unspeakable
When research reveals hushed WWII trauma embedded in a British family of Czech-Jewish ancestry.
More info →Hidden in Plain Sight
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.
More info →Austrian Again
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.
More info →Eighteen for Life
A loving family life belies harrowing wartime experiences and extraordinary courage, and ultimately fails to hide Martha’s biggest secret.
More info →Four Survivor Grandparents
The grandson of four Holocaust survivors shares the raw truth he learned of his grandparents’ harrowing journeys which still resonates and inspires.
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