Barbara's Blog
Credit to Our Heroes & Notable September Dates
Great news everyone! Witness For My Father won first place in the Readers’ Favorite International Book Award contest in the biography genre! The notice came in on September 1st and I’m humbled and couldn’t be prouder. Click Here to read the review, or click on the...
Book Clubs are Alive and Well!
I have to admit that I hesitated when I was invited to attend my first book club meeting on Zoom. After launching Witness For My Father, our lives changed so quickly, and like other major life events, you have to adapt, and have hope! For heaven’s sake, that’s the...
Happy “Other” Birthday, Dad!
On April 29, 1945, my father was liberated from the Dachau concentration camp in Germany. In memory of this, I’d like to share an excerpt from my book: Witness For My Father, chapter twenty-one: Dachau was the only camp my father would talk about. Even...
In memory of all who have passed…
Each year at this time, I feel the extra weight of suffering. On April 29th my dad was liberated from Dachau, and today we honor Yom HaShoah, the day of remembrance for the six million Jewish people who died in the Holocaust. This is a landmark year to honor the...
Our Country is on Pause
“Mietek had finished cataloging his stamp collection. He was tired. Alone in his room, he stared out his window at the forbidden outdoors. He would give anything to be back in school, sitting behind the wooden desk next to Alex. How many math tests had he missed? How...
It’s Black History Month
“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”Martin Luther King Jr. The U.S. army was still segregated in 1945, the year my father was liberated from the German Dachau concentration camp. Weighing less than 100 pounds, he was close to...
Imagine all the people
Our launch date for Witness For My Father, January 27th, marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This day also honors the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Ten days prior, my dad was forced to evacuate Auschwitz on a death march where 15,000...