Children of the Holocaust

Conversations with Sons and Daughters of Survivors

"I set out to find a group of people who, like me, were possessed by a history they had never lived."

The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Helen Epstein traveled from America to Europe to Israel, searching for one vital thin in common: their parent's persecution by the Nazis. She found:

• Gabriela Korda, who was raised by her parents as a German Protestant in South America;
• Albert Singerman, who fought in the jungles of Vietnam to prove that he, too, could survive a grueling ordeal;
• Deborah Schwartz, a Southern beauty queen who—at the Miss America pageant, played the same Chopin piece that was played over Polish radio during Hitler's invasion.

Epstein interviewed hundreds of men and women coping with an extraordinary legacy. In each, she found shades of herself.

Informative and Riveting

With understanding there will be wisdom. This book has given great insight about transgenerational trauma and the pros of how individuals interpret that in their lives.

Enlightening

This is an impressive discussion regarding the impact of the most overwhelming dedicated effort to exterminate one religion and culture. Children often have a difficult chore when it comes to extracting painful truths from their elders. They may also have their own pain when they learn and assess the experience of living through the trauma. Two-thirds of the people targeted by the Nazi were murdered. We all need to wrap our thoughts around this truth. Anyone who wishes to learn more about the Holocaust will benefit from this book.

I am one of those children

I saw so much of myself through many testimony's my parents were not only survivors of WW II but endured our second oppressors the Russians. I escaped with my parents from the Hungarian revolution to America.

Terrible

Terrible do not waist your time or money will return it as soon as possible