To Tell At Last
Survival under False Identity, 1941-45
A true story of a friendship and survival during the Third Reich
Paper – $28
978-0-252-06520-0
Publication Date
Paperback: 01/01/1995
About the Book
Blanca Rosenberg was a young wife and mother who escaped the brutality of the ghetto in Kolomyja, Poland, after her entire immediate family was killed. Though equipped with Aryan false-identity papers, she found life marked by daily threats and the danger of discovery by the Gestapo, Polish police, extortionists, collaborators, hoodlums, and even former colleagues and acquaintances. Rosenberg’s wartime trek took her to Polish cities, German military hospitals, and finally to Heidelberg, Germany, where she worked as a maid in a Nazi household from 1944 until her liberation by American forces. Her story is also a testimony to the power of friendship. Brought together in the ghetto, she and her friend Maria continued to support each other in their ensuing struggle for survival.About the Author
Blanca Rosenberg is a retired associate professor of social work at Columbia University and practices as a psychotherapist in New York City.Reviews
"Searing. With an even hand and understated prose, Ms. Rosenberg bravely depicts Nazi carnage in chilling detail."--Susan Shapiro, New York Times Book Review"A harrowing account of intrigue and danger with all the elements of a war movie adventure."--Miriam Rinn, The Forward
Blurbs
“A tensely compelling narrative of life at the height of personal danger. The story of a friendship between two Jewish women which overcame the threat of Nazi genocide. This is one of the finest, most authentically dramatic and richly detailed memoirs written by a survivor of the Nazi Holocaust.”--Alan Adelson, executive director, the Jewish Heritage Project, producer/director of Lodz Ghetto
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