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The women in my father’s life

As a teenager during the Holocaust, my father fell in love twice.

The first was with his beautiful neighbor, Mrs. Haber. The second was the celebrated dancer Franceska Mann.

He could save neither woman. Yet he carried them with him for the rest of his life. More than eighty years later, I finally understood why.

About the book

I Want This in Writing

Heroes, Rogues, Family: Two Centuries of Survival

What began as a fact-finding mission evolved into a confrontation with a legacy of conflict shaped by decisions made under extraordinary strain. Men deeply wounded by war and dislocation acted from fear, survival, and incomplete understanding, often unaware of the harm their choices would inflict on those who came after them.

About this project

Under Other Names grew out of a sustained investigation into family histories marked by concealment, reinvention, and silence—an inquiry that gradually opened onto a wider, largely uncharted landscape of Jewish lives lived at the edges of identity.