Tag: Holocaust
How IBM Helped Hitler
Originally published here on April 14, 2015, as An Unexpected Answer Published to Substack on 04/18/2026 * Recently, a reader of Immigrant Soldier asked me an interesting question during an author presentation. “How did the Nazis find all the Jewish people, especially people like Herman’s family who didn’t practice the religion?” My first response was…
Why Did Jews Stay So Long in Nazi Germany?
READERS OF MY HISTORICAL NOVEL, Immigrant Soldier, have asked me why the two main characters remained in Germany after Hitler came to power. Indeed, along with a few kind words, one reader wrote in a review, “I really didn’t like Clara, because she stayed too long in Germany. Why didn’t she leave earlier?” This is…
Books Beyond Auschwitz
When I learned, at seventeen, of my father’s Jewish heritage, I flung myself headlong into reading about Judaism. (see my earlier post, Finding my Jewish Story.) Naturally, this discovery led me to read countless books about the Holocaust and World War II. . . . And finally, to writing two historical novels inspired by family stories…
Finding the Women’s Story Buried in Immigrant Soldier
A Mother and Daughter Relationship Revealed. I WAS COMPELLED TO WRITE my first novel, Immigrant Soldier, because the true story of my uncle’s role in Patton’s Third Army grabbed me and would not let me go. Herman’s Jewish blood branded him in Nazi eyes, forced him to flee his homeland, and landed him in the…