About My Mother’s War: A Holocaust Survivors Tribute to an Extraordinary Woman by Michael Fryd
My Mother’s War is a gripping memoir by Holocaust survivor Michael Fryd about his mother, an indomitable woman who saved her family from the Nazis by demonstrating extraordinary courage and masterful cunning.
Armed with nothing but her limitless energy, inborn intelligence, and outsized ambition, she outsmarted German Nazis, Polish anti-Semites, and Russian soldiers at every turn.
Michael Fryd was only three years old when Nazi Germany invaded Poland, triggering World War II and one of humanity’s darkest chapters. Forced to leave their home and everything they knew, Michael’s mother did whatever it took to keep her
family safe from Hitler’s clutches.
After learning of the Nazi’s imminent plan to exterminate the Jewish population of Wolomin in the gas chambers of Treblinka, she fled with her family under the cover of night, taking shelter in a root cellar where they lived in hiding for three years. By sheer force of will, she provided for her family time and again. Having lost all respect for the law that didn’t protect her, she adopted the most creative, and at times illegal, methods of survival. The end of the war was only the beginning, as Michael’s mother blazed a trail through treacherous territory in the promise of a better life for her family.
My Mother’s War is an incredible true story of a daring escape through the killing fields of Poland, to Paris, and finally New York.
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Author Bio:
Michael Fryd lives and writes in Philadelphia. After an award-winning career as a scientist, he returned to his early passion, writing. His short fiction appeared in Intrinsick, Easy Street, Page and Spine, Evening Street Press, UK short Humor, Story Sanctum. My Mother’s War is a 2023 Maxy Award “Bio and Memoir Runner-up” and
semi-finalist in the 2014 Faulkner-Wisdom Competition in Creative Non-Fiction.