Stealing German Bread

About the Book

In this touching, heart-felt story, the author reveals her mother’s memories and longing for her lost family. The author, who was born six years after the Holocaust, shares her deep personal thoughts and feelings as a child who grew up in Israel among many Holocaust survivors. Stealing German Bread starts with a recurring dream of a mother, a dream that reappears nightly well into years after the war. It is a story of a family and two sisters who supported each other in the Nazis’ concentration camps, providing motivation to survive for one and a sad end after liberation for the other.

About the Author

Yochevet Artzi, MS LMFT An Israeli writer who divides her life between her native country, Israel, and her chosen state Georgia, USA, Yochevet Artzi is a mother of three children and works as a licensed marriage and family therapist in her own clinic in Thomasville, Georgia. She is the author of I Have Two Countries, a collection of poems reflecting the soul of a therapist and the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. Stealing German Bread is a true story of two sisters who were thrown out of their normal life in Hungary straight into the Nazis’ concentration camps. It is a stunning and inspirational story told by an eighty-year-old mother in Israel to her daughter in America via transatlantic telephone calls sixty years after the war.