This is not a memoir of my own life, but an amazing story of survival. As yet, unpublished.

MY FATHER'S PROMISE: A HIDDEN CHILD SURVIVES THE HOLOCAUST   co-written with Harriet Dronska-Feitelberg.

‘"You will make it through the war, and so will I, and we will find each other."
So said my father, leaving me on a street corner. I believed him. He always kept his promises.’

from My Father's Promise.

Harriet, when in her eighties, unburies at last her long-repressed experience of being a child hiding in plain sight during the Holocaust. 

She deposited an earlier version of her memories with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Subsequently, I worked with Harriet to shape this extraordinary true story into a book.

Henryka Schatz was the daughter of assimilated Jews in Lwow, Poland. Under the German occupation her mother vanished, taken by the Nazis. Her father sent Henryka away, at nine years old, to save her. Carrying false Catholic papers, she worked as a maid in various households, some German. Exposure meant death.

Wrenched from a pampered childhood, separated from her remaining family, often hungry, she kept her disguise and her chutzpah, even bluffing the SS. She was sustained by her father's promise and by his confidence in her.

Nearly all Lwow's Jews died. Henryka and her father did survive, and did find each other again.