Dear Colleagues and Friends;
Wanted to alert you to this new publication which
I found of great interest and engrossing.
Shalom
Ken Schoen
An Improbable Journey:
A True Story of Courage and Survival During World War II
Susan Schenkel, Ph.D.
A wealthy, prominent German-Jewish family was
torn apart, first by suicide, then by Hitler. At
sixteen, Siddi, the youngest, was left on her
own in Nazi Germany. Through an extraordinary
chain of events, she found herself in Central
Asia. Leon, a handsome Polish Jew, worked his
way up from poverty to become a successful
salesman. Through an equally extraordinary chain
of events, he also found himself in Central Asia.
Siddi and Leon met and fell in love in
Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Together, they struggled
to survive hunger, homelessness, deadly
epidemics, a black market economy, and Soviet
police harassment. After the war, they managed
to get from Central Asia to a displaced persons
camp in Southern Germany. Along the way, they
had a baby. Incredibly, in the DP camp, this
Jewish couple developed an enduring friendship,
which defied the hatreds of the time, with a
German woman and put their baby girl into her care.
An Improbable Journey presents the historical
context and provides many vignettes that
describe Siddi and Leons different worlds and
the people in them: the sister who met King
Edward VIII; the puritanical daughter of a
brothel owner; the Jewish best friend who
survived living underground in Berlin. An
Improbable Journey is the true story of many
remarkable people and the courage, love,
friendship, and hope that keeps the human race going
Midwest Book Review: Susan Schenkel is an
extraordinarily talented storyteller whose An
Improbable Journey is as engaging and
informative as it is thoughtful and occasionally
inspiring. A welcome addition to the growing
library of World War II era biographies and very
highly recommended for community and academic
library collections as well as the personal
reading lists for those who enjoy stories of
ordinary human triumphs over extraordinary and hazardous circumstances.
Susan Schenkel, Ph.D. is a psychologist and a
writer in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the
author of Giving Away Success: Why Women Get
Stuck And What To Do About It and has been
interviewed on radio and television and in
magazines and newspapers across the
country. She has also been a clinical
instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at
Harvard Medical School. She wrote An Improbable
Journey to share Leon and Siddis story of love and hope.
Book is available at Amazon and can be specially
ordered in bookstores, with IngramSpark as global distributor.
--
Kenneth Schoen, SCHOEN BOOKS...catalogues issued in
Judaica, the Holocaust and modern European history
Books with a past...looking for a future!
"The cistern contains, the fountain overflows" William Blake
http://www.schoenbooks.com
see also www.trigere.com and www.deerfieldartsbank.com
7 Sugarloaf Street, South Deerfield, MA. 01373
(413) 665-0066
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