In a World Gone Mad
Subtitle: A Heroic Story of Love, Faith, and Survival
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: September 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780687096107
Subjects: Historical - Holocaust; Salsitz, Norman,; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Biography / Autobiography; United States; 1922-; Poland; Biography & Autobiography; Holocaust survivors; Biography/Autobiography; Holocaust; Biography: general; Religion & Beliefs; 1920-; Jews; Religious; Salsitz, Amalie Petranker,; Biography
First sentence: The idea of writing this book originates from advice given to me by two very wise women, the famed centenarian Delany sisters, on a warm summer afternoon in 1995.
Description: Amy Hill Hearth shares the story of Norman and Amalie Petranker Salsitz, a couple who survived the Holocaust in Poland by posing as Christians, and discusses the friendship that developed between the Salsitzes and Hearth, who was motivated to write the book in part by her uneasy feelings about being of German descent.