In the Face of Evil: Based on the Life of Dina Frydman Balbien
The journey through my mother's Holocaust experience has taken 72 years, a lifetime; the writing of this novel has taken two years.  From my earliest childhood my mother shared her stories with a truly inquisitive child who probed ever deeper into the world of darkness that was my mother's teen years, 1939-1945.  Unable to comprehend how such horrors could have happened, over and over my young mother was made to explain.  This constant retelling of the nightmare seared the memories like a branding iron into both her skin and mine.  Neither of us could ever forget.  Although reliving those years is still as painful as a new wound, I knew that the time had come to share that historical journey through Hell.  My mother is one of the youngest survivors and their numbers dwindle as I write this.  The witnesses/victims/testifiers will all too soon be gone and the deniers will spew forth their venom as they try to alter the historical record.  Only these personal accounts from the flesh and blood survivors will stand firm in the face of evil.