Survivor Story: Life-Saving Trade

“When asked our line of work, I answered carpenter; my father replied bricklayer. Carpenters were transferred to another camp. My father told me, ‘Though I must stay here, you have an obligation to go and save yourself.’ I never saw him again.” Read about two Holocaust survivors, German Jewish newlyweds sent to America by their parents to have children to “save our people,” in One Person’s Loss. Learn more about the book in NOVELS.

Jewish carpenters forced to build a Nazi work camp
Berlin, 1937. Jewish newlyweds flee Germany for Brooklyn on the eve of the Nazi slaughter

Author: annsepstein@att.net

Ann S. Epstein is an award-winning writer of novels, short stories, memoirs, and essays.

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