Book Launch and Signing

Have you ever really thought about
your ancestors – beyond their names and dates of events in their lives? The
stories of how they lived their lives
can be a source of strength as well as inspiration in your own life.

In this new work of narrative
nonfiction, Susan M. Rostan invites us to experience her journey as she seeks to uncover the story of her husband’s family, including two courageous but
silent survivors of WWII’s Warsaw Ghetto: her mother-in-law Elzbieta and Elzbieta’s

brother, Marian Rosenbloom.

With the passing of Elzbieta, an
aging Uncle Marian is the only surviving link to his family’s history -- the
stories of tragic loss and heroic survival -- that he and his sister had
refused to share with anyone throughout their life. Encouraged by the author
and driven by an emerging sense of responsibility to his sister’s namesake and
future generations, Marian begins a difficult journey into the memories of his childhood in the Warsaw Ghetto and subsequent survival.

As his experiences unfold, he haltingly
recalls how he managed to escape the Ghetto and survive, thanks to his
courageous rescuers. Out of his remembrances, the author nurtures not only the
story of her husband’s family history, but finds herself immersed in an
insistent desire to honor Marian’s rescuers. Through her poignant and
compelling narrative, she revives Elzbieta’s legacy of hope, caring, and
laughter for all of us to share.