Anita Epstein, among the world's younger Holocaust survivors, came to America at seven years old and, in her teens, auditioned twice for the film role of Anne Frank. She later became a lobbyist for education and trade issues. She worries a great deal about what will happen when the last Holocaust survivors, like her, are gone.

Noel Epstein, former Education Editor of The Washington Post, spent more than forty years as a journalist with the Post, the Wall Street Journal and as an independent consultant. He is the editor of Who’s In Charge Here? The Tangled Web of School Governance and Policy (Brookings Institution Press, 2004) and author of Language, Ethnicity, and the Schools (Institute for Educational Leadership, George Washington University, 1977), which helped shape U.S. bilingual education policy.

Foreword by Michael Berenbaum

Introduction: Before It’s Too Late          

Part I: Origins
Chapter 1: In the Shadow of the Shoah        
Chapter 2: Hotter Hells
Chapter 3: “Don’t Let Her Take Me!”

Part II: Closed Doors
Chapter 4: New People, Old Problems
Chapter 5: Living With the Enemy
Chapter 6: In Search of Home

Part III: New World
Chapter 7: Becoming an American
Chapter 8: Falling for a Litvak
Chapter 9: Debts
Chapter 10: New York City Crisis and Beyond

Afterword