As others before her, Dr. Akerman-Tieder wrote her book to keep her family's story alive as well as the stories of the other people who were murdered by the Nazis. Yet her tale is different in significant ways. Dr. Akerman-Tieder is a poet with three published poetry collections and a pediatrician and psychoanalyst. The first draft of this volume was dictated to friends and family in a conversational manner and then edited as a book. She uses her psychoanalytic skills when she reports and comments … more