Table of contents

Foreword 

Notes to the Reader 

Family Tree 

Chapter One: The First Separation (1939-1940) 

Chapter Two: Emigrants and Refugees 

Chapter Three: Victims of Theft and Violence 

Chapter Four: Letters from Brno 

Chapter Five: A Second Separation (1939-1940) 

Chapter Six: Hide and Seek in Toulouse (1942-1943) 

Chapter Seven: Larade and the Quakers 

Chapter Eight: Menachem and His Family 

Chapter Nine: Ron Friend 

Chapter Ten: Hide and Seek at the Swiss Border 

Chapter Eleven: The Swiss Years 1943-1945 

Chapter Twelve: Family Fate Unknown 

Chapter Thirteen: Liberation of a Town… and a Name 

Chapter Fourteen: Irmi Seidler 

Chapter Fifteen: The Post-War Struggles 

Chapter Sixteen: Brno 

Chapter Seventeen: The South and the North 

Chapter Eighteen: Catching Missed Stitches 

Chapter Nineteen: "Now I know why I fought so hard" (Hélène, 1989) 

Epilogue 

Annexes 

I. Characters 

II. Map of France 

III. Partial Seidler and Lustig Family Tree 

IV. Appendices 

V. Timeline of Emigration and Labor Decrees 

Acknowledgments